Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences
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Louise Willingale conducts research in intense laser-plasma interactions including laser-driven ion acceleration, relativistic laser propagation through underdense and near-critical density plasmas, and proton radiography to study electric and magnetic fields generated during the laser-plasma interactions.
Louise is affiliated with the High Field Science group in the Center for Ultrafast Optical Science (CUOS), and is a member of MIPSE. The in-house facilities she works with are the T-cubed laser facility and with the HERCULES laser. External facilities are also used to perform experiments including the OMEGA EP facility, at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, the Jupiter laser facility at the LLNL and the VULCAN laser in the UK.
Short Bio:
Louise Willingale received her PhD in Plasma Physics at the Imperial College, London, and joined the University of Michigan Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences in 2008 as a Postdoctoral Researcher, and in 2011 as an Assistant Research Scientist. In 2014, she joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as an Assistant Professor. She received an NSF CAREER Award for research in magnetic reconnection in plasmas.
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