Kei Nakamura

Kei Nakamura (M’07) received the B.S. degree in electronic and information engineering from Tokyo Metropolitan University in 2000, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in quantum engineering and system science from the University of Tokyo, in 2002 and 2008, respectively. He joined LOASIS Program (currently BELLA Center) with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in 2004 for his Ph.D. work. He was a Post-Doctoral Scholar with the University of Nevada, Reno, in 2008, and a Post-Doctoral Scholar with LBNL from 2009 to 2012, where he has been an Applied Physicist, since 2013. His research interest includes intense laser-plasma interactions, high power ultrafast lasers and their diagnostics, magnetic optics for charged particle accelerators, and relativistic electron beam diagnostics. He received the Particle Accelerator Society of Japan Young Scientist Award for outstanding dissertation in 2008.