Félicie Albert
Félicie Albert is a French and American physicist working on laser plasma accelerators. She is the deputy director for the Center for High Energy Density Science at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and staff scientist at the National Ignition Facility and Photon Science Directorate and the Joint High Energy Density Sciences organization.
Education and career
She received a BS in 2003 in engineering from École Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Marseille, in France, her master's degree in optics from the University of Central Florida in 2004 and her PhD from prestigious École Polytechnique with advisor Antoine Rousse in 2007. Her PhD thesis is entitled "Synchrotron radiation based on laser-plasma interaction in the relativistic range." Albert then joined Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow in 2008. Her main areas of expertise are "the generation and applications of novel sources of electrons, X-rays and gamma-rays through laser-plasma interaction, laser-wakefield acceleration and Compton scattering."Albert became a naturalized American citizen in 2018.