My research involves experiments using the highest intensity laser pulses in the world. By focusing down these laser pulses, extremely high energy densities are created so we can study ultra-high intensity laser plasma interactions. I have worked on a broad range of topics from laser-driven ion acceleration, neutron generation, laser channeling, laser propagation in the ultra-relativistic induced transparency regime, relativistic laser electron heating mechanisms, particle-in-cell-simulations, to laser-driven magnetic reconnection and advection of magnetic fields via hot electrons.
Laser Plasma Ion Acceleration
