Elizabeth Grace

Dr. Elizabeth Grace is the High Energy Density Science Center Fellow within NIF & Photon Sciences at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Her work involves the use of high intensity lasers to investigate novel high energy density states of matter, generate energetic beams of particles, study laboratory astrophysics, and explore fusion physics. Liz graduated with a bachelor’s in physics from Reed College, then received her MS and PhD in Physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she was awarded a Presidential Fellowship, Amelio Award for Research Excellence, Herbert P. Haley Research Award, and Springer Thesis Award from Springer Nature. She is the Chair of the LaserNetUS User Group (I-USE) and has provided advice to the DOE’s Office of Science as the Chair of Pulse Measurement at the Basic Research Needs Workshop on Laser Technology. 

Featured Publications:

1. Toward machine-learning-assisted PW-class high-repetition-rate experiments with solid targets; D. A. Mariscal, B. Z. Djordjevic, R. Anirudh, J. Jayaraman-Thiagarajan, Elizabeth Grace, R. A. Simpson, K. K. Swanson, T. C. Galvin, D. Mittelberger, J. E. Heebner, R. Muir, E. Folsom, M. P. Hill, S. Feister, E. Ito, K. Valdez-Sereno, J. J. Rocca, J. Park, S. Wang, R. Hollinger, R. Nedbailo, B. Sullivan, G. Zeraouli, A. Shukla, P. Turaga, A. Sarkar, B. Van Essen, S. Liu, B. Spears, P.-T. Bremer, and T. Ma;
   Physics of Plasmas 31, 073105 (2024). 
   
   
2. Rapid retrieval of first-order spatiotemporal distortions for ultrashort laser pulses;
   Elizabeth Grace, T. Ma, Z. Guang, R. Simpson, G. Scott, D. Mariscal, and R. Trebino;
   Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 63(12): 124005 (2021)
   
   
3. Single-shot measurements of pulse-front tilt in intense ps laser pulses and its effect on accelerated electron and ion beam characteristics (invited);
   Elizabeth Grace, B. Djordjevic, Z. Guang, D. A. Mariscal, G. G. Scott, R. A. Simpson, K. Swanson, G. Zeraouli, B. Stuart, R. Trebino, and T. Ma;
   Review of Scientific Instruments, 93, 123508 (2022). Invited.
   * 2023 Deputy Director Science & Technology Excellence in Publication Award
   
   
4. Single-shot complete spatiotemporal measurement of terawatt laser pulses;
   Elizabeth Grace, T. Ma, Z. Guang, R. Jafari, J. Park, J. Clark, E. Kemp, J. Moody, M. Rhodes, Y. Ping, R. Shepherd, B. Stuart, and R. Trebino;
   Journal of Optics 23(7): 075505 (2021) 
   * Outstanding Publication Award, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
   
   
5. Accelerating the rate of discovery: Toward high-repetition rate HED science;
   T. Ma, D. Mariscal, R. Anirudh, T. Bremer, B. Z. Djordjevic, T. Galvin, Elizabeth Grace, C. Haefner, S. Herriot, S. Jacobs, B. Kailkhura, R. Hollinger, J. Kim, S. Liu, J. Ludwig, D. Neely, J. J. Rocca, G. G. Scott, R. A. Simpson, B. S. Spears, T. S. Spinka, K. Swanson, J. J. Thiagarajan, B. Van Essen, S. Wang, S. C. Wilks, G.  J. Williams, J. Zhang
   Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 63(10): 104003 (2021).