- Lead an R&D team of 15 cross-functional PhDs and engineers to develop a key materials science diagnostic for an in-house research program - Coordination, agile work planning and control of day-to-day operations at a large-scale laser facility serving internal and external stakeholders- Was the project lead for the development of a short-pulse laser-driven x-ray source for dynamic materials analysis (3-yr, 8 PhDs and engineers)- Hands-on design, experiment planning and fielding of… Show more - Lead an R&D team of 15 cross-functional PhDs and engineers to develop a key materials science diagnostic for an in-house research program - Coordination, agile work planning and control of day-to-day operations at a large-scale laser facility serving internal and external stakeholders- Was the project lead for the development of a short-pulse laser-driven x-ray source for dynamic materials analysis (3-yr, 8 PhDs and engineers)- Hands-on design, experiment planning and fielding of x-ray and particle beam spectrometers and imagers- Development of a modeling and simulation software suite for x-ray optics and x-ray-matter interactions Show less

- Lead Scientist for the development of x-ray microscopes using crystal x-ray mirrors and high-energy lasers for Sandia’s Z Pulsed Power Facility, the world’s strongest x-ray source. - Project lead for a 3-year R&D project to develop short pulse laser-driven, time-resolved x-ray diffraction on laser-driven matter under high pressure.

- R&D with laser-accelerated proton beams using high-energy short-pulse lasers. Project lead for a 3-year R&D project developing the foundation for laser-accelerated proton radiography at the Z Pulsed Power Facility. - Use of 3D particle-in-cell codes on supercomputers to simulate intense laser-plasma interaction and particle acceleration.

- First demonstration of coupling and transport of laser-accelerated proton beams with miniature permanent magnet quadrupoles (see Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 055004 (2008)). - Stopping power measurements of protons in radiochromic film (RCF). Key team member in stopping power measurements of heavy ion beams in laser plasmas at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.

Build out and operation of a CO2 laser ion source.

Development of a data analysis code for x-ray spectra from highly charged ions, laboratory build out of for an x-pinch plasma source.