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Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics Division
Mauricio Ayllon Unzueta is a Research Scientist in the ATAP division. Mauricio received his PhD in nuclear engineering at UC Berkeley and was a postdoctoral fellow at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Mauricio works on gamma ray and neutron spectrometers for space and Earth applications.
Physics Division
Anne Fortman is a postdoctoral researcher in high energy particle physics working on the ATLAS experiment. During her time at Berkeley Lab, she has contributed to building and testing a new silicon strip tracker to detect charged particles in ATLAS in preparation for the High Luminosity upgrade to the Large Hadron Collider. Currently, she is focusing on using ATLAS proton-proton collision data to search for new invisible fundamental particles.
Applied Mathematics & Computational Research Division
Angelos Ioannou is a computer systems engineer in the AMCR division. Angelos focuses on Reconfigurable Computing, involving FPGA-aided simulation for HPC architectures, as well as hardware acceleration of scientific applications.
He is currently also involved on the use for AI on hardware flows, as well as Quantum Computer control systems.
Materials Sciences Division
Bruno La Fontaine is a senior scientist at Berkeley Lab and the Director of the Center for X-Ray Optics. During his career, which spans over 30 years, he has been involved in pioneering technology development work on Extreme Ultraviolet (or EUV) lithography, as well as research in a number of areas related to the application of high-power lasers. After receiving his Ph.D. in plasma physics from INRS near Montréal, in Canada, he started his career as a post-doc at Bell Labs, then as a research scientist at LLNL, before accepting a position as Professor of physics at INRS. In 2000, he returned to the US to join the semiconductor industry, first at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), where he was a fellow, before moving to Cymer and then ASML. Bruno is a fellow of SPIE and is an inventor of inventor of over 50 US and international patents, as well as being an author of over 130 papers.
Rebecca Carney is a staff engineer in the Electronic Systems group where she designs instrumentation and readout to support her colleagues across Berkeley Lab, predominantly in the Physical Sciences Area.
Rebecca first started working at LBL as an undergraduate intern in 2011 and has been finding ways to come back ever since. Following her PhD in the Physics Division with the ATLAS experiment, she worked as a postdoc in Nuclear Science on neutrinos and 0vBB, before moving to her role in engineering.
Rebecca served on the 2023 IIC committee, during which she also took over as committee chair.
Adam Foote is an administrative assistant providing support for various groups in the Berkeley Lab Physics division, including ATLAS, QIS, and the PDG.
Adam has been working with the IIC since 2023.