Stephen Reed Email & Phone Number

US Space Force, Space Rapid Capabilities Office (SpRCO) Chief Scientist SETA

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

• Offensive and Defense Space control (OSD / DSC) directorate.
• Lead support to Schriever Wargames
• Support Space security, space situational awareness, technology planning, requirements development, prototype planning, tactics development and operations.
• Future system requirements.
• AFSPC (Air force Space Command) /Spacecom lead technical advisor.
• AFSPC lead technical advisor tasked to review, provide insight/oversight, identify gaps, and provide recommendations for over 100 Science and Technology (S&T) technology needs (aka. “tech-needs”) as part of the AFSPC.

El Segundo CA

Austin, Texas

• 2008 — 2010 Postdoctoral Fellow The University of Texas at Austin Supervisor: Dr. Michael DownerResearch topics and experience:
• Supervisor of several graduate research projects;
• Designing and building experimental apparatuses;
• Specific projects are laser wakefield electron acceleration, Frequency Domain Holography, warm dense matter interactions, and laser wakefield electron acceleration using the Texas Petawatt laser system to several GeV.
• Design and construction of high energy electron spectrometers and calorimeter MeV - GeV;
• Modeling with EGS4, (GEANT4);

Ann Arbor

• 2002 — 2007 Graduate Student University of Michigan Supervisor: Dr. Gérard Mourou and Dr. Anatoly Maksimchuk Research topics and experience:
• Nuclear activation and photofission as a diagnostic;
• Laser wakefield electron acceleration;
• Electron and proton acceleration from ultra-intense laser solid interactions and warm dense matter science.Hands on experience:
• Everyday alignment of optical diagnostics such as spectrometers, interferometers, and imaging systems;
• Experimental vacuum chamber design and setup from scratch;

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

• Investigating Quantum Gravity beyond Einstein’s General Relativity describing Space-time as an emergent, self-creating, quantized structure.o Allows one to obtain equations of motion for all quantum fields and derive.
• Photonuclear Fission with Quasi-Monoenergetic Electron Beams from Laser Wakefieldso Short-lived proton rich heavy isotopes and its impact to Type I supernova nucleosynthesis (S. A. Reed, et. al., “Photonuclear Fission.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Physics

2007 Graduate Student University of Michigan Supervisor: Dr. Gérard Mourou and Dr. Anatoly Maksimchuk

Master Of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Double Major : Magna Cum Laude

Double Major Physics & Chemistry, Minor in Mathematics : Physics GPA 4.0