Essay: Bob Siemann’s contributions to advanced accelerators—a personal perspective

Wim Leemans ^*
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA

Received 11 November 2008; published 9 December 2008

©2008 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.11.120004
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.11.120004
PACS: 01.60.+q

^* Dr. Wim Leemans obtained an electrical engineering/applied physics degree from the “Vrije Universiteit Brussel,” Belgium in 1985, and the M. S. and Ph. D. degrees in electrical engineering, in 1987 and 1991, respectively, from UCLA. He received the 1992 American Physical Society Simon Ramo award for outstanding doctoral thesis research work in plasma physics. In 1991 he joined the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and is now a Senior Scientist and the Head of the LOASIS Program of the AFRD. He is also an Adjunct Professor in physics at the University of Nevada, Reno. He works on laser based advanced accelerator and radiation generation concepts. He is a Fellow of the APS and of IEEE, was Chair of the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) Panel on Advanced and Novel Accelerator from 2000–2007, the corecipient of the 1996 Klaus Halbach Award for X-ray Instrumentation, the recipient of the 2005 USPAS Prize for Achievement in Accelerator Physics and Technology, and the corecipient of LBNL Outstanding Performance Awards in 2005 and 2006.