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LaserNetUS Introduces "Behind the Scenes"
Feb 27, 2025. News
This initiative features short interviews with LaserNetUS members, highlighting opportunities for scientists to use the network's laser facilities for their research.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA—LaserNetUS is excited to unveil a new outreach initiative titled "Behind the Scenes at LaserNetUS." Emphasizing LaserNetUS's dedication to expanding the scientific ecosystem and collaboration within the network, this project features engaging mini-videos spotlighting our users’ and facility points of contact’s (POC) experiences within LaserNetUS. Filming to produce this dynamic content for social media and presentations in FY25 recently wrapped at the 2024 LaserNetUS Meeting in Austin, TX, and we are pleased to share the first video interview now.
In this first interview, LaserNetUS Principal Investigator (PI) Dr. Mario Manuel underscores how LaserNetUS expands opportunities for early-career scientists. He highlights LaserNetUS’s primary purpose as offering access to its network of laboratories across the U.S. to those in the laser science community who might not otherwise be able to participate in high-energy-density science experiments. Click the preview below to watch Dr. Manuel’s interview, or visit the LaserNetUS YouTube channel for this and other recordings.
About Dr. Mario Manuel
Dr. Mario Manuel, a Scientist at General Atomics, Inc., leads the GALADRIEL Laser Facility and plays a crucial role in developing and fabricating precision target capsules for the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He has made significant contributions to the laboratory astrophysics and inertial confinement fusion fields, including his involvement in the groundbreaking achievement of fusion ignition at NIF in December 2022. He recently served as a PI for the LaserNetUS experiment K200, focusing on the "Characterization of Early-Stage, Quasi-Parallel, Collisionless-Shock Formation." Additionally, Dr. Manuel was an inaugural member of the LaserNetUS User Group, contributing to the Intense-Light USers Engagement (I-USE) Committee.
Check back here periodically for updates on who’s next in line in the latest of the remaining interviews as they become available!
About LaserNetUS
Founded in 2018, LaserNetUS is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science initiative providing scientists access to a network of high-power laser facilities across the U.S. The program fosters collaboration and supports cutting-edge research in plasma physics, materials science, and particle acceleration.
Media Contact:
Dr. Chandra Breanne Curry
LaserNetUS Coordinator
ccurry@slac.stanford.edu
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