Luke Fletcher

Luke Fletcher is an associate staff scientist working in the High Energy Density Sciences (HED) division at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. He is the acting group leader for the high pressure physics group within HED, and is a senior principle investigator for experiments performed at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) involving high temperature and high pressure states of matter. Luke joined SLAC in 2013 after completing a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of California Berkeley department of physics working in collaboration with the National Ignition Facility photon science group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In that capacity, his research focused on using laser produced x-ray sources to measure temperatures, densities, and ionization states of above solid-density plasmas using x-ray Thomson scattering techniques. Luke received a bachelor of science in physics from the University of Arizona, and a master’s degree and doctorate in applied physics from the University of California Davis.