Siegfried Glenzer

Siegfried Glenzer, who is the recipient of the recent E. O. Lawrence award, is Professor and High-Energy-Density division director at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. He joined SLAC as a distinguished scientist in 2013 to build a new discovery-class program in exploring matter in extreme conditions using high-power lasers and the world-class Linac Coherent Light Source x-ray beam.

Before joining SLAC, he held the plasma physics group leader position at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for 12 years, where he led the first inertial confinement fusion experiments on the National Ignition Facility. He has also been visiting lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. Siegfried is the individual recipient of the American Physical Society “Excellence in Plasma Physics” Award (2003). He also won two DOE Excellence in Publications Awards (2011 & 2014) and two Science and Technology Awards (2005 & 2012). In 2004, he received the Alexander-von-Humboldt senior research prize and spent a research and teaching year at the Universität Rostock and at the Deutsche Elektronen Synchrotron in Hamburg, Germany. Since then, he has been the host for two Alexander-von-Humboldt Lynen postdoctoral fellows, two Lawrence postdoctoral fellows, three Peter-Paul-Ewald fellows, and has supervised more than 20 postdoctoral scientists both at LLNL and SLAC.