Félicie Albert

Félicie Albert is a French and American physicist working on laser plasma accelerators. She is the deputy director for the Center for High Energy Density Science at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and staff scientist at the National Ignition Facility and Photon Science Directorate and the Joint High Energy Density Sciences organization.

Education and career

She received a BS in 2003 in engineering from École Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Marseille (now École Centrale de Marseille), in France, her master's degree in optics from the University of Central Florida in 2004 and her PhD from prestigious École Polytechnique with advisor Antoine Rousse in 2007.

Albert became a naturalized American citizen in 2018. in 2017, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineers In 2023, she was named a Fellow of Optica, "for pioneering research on the development and applications of x-ray sources driven by laser-wakefield acceleration and leadership in the LaserNetUS initiative."