Background

Mark Foord is a staff physicist in the LLNL Theory and Modeling group. While pursuing his doctorate, he studied particle transport of magnetically confined plasma. After graduation, Mark took a post-doc and then a staff position at Weizmann Institute Physics Department in Israel, working in the area of plasma spectroscopy and atomic modeling of high power plasma devices. Since joining LLNL in 1992, Mark has been involved in a number of areas of research related to hot dense plasma physics, inertial confinement fusion, and laboratory astrophysics. His current research interests involve using sub-picosecond lasers to generate short bursts of high energy protons for applications in inertial confinement fusion and medical therapy.

Ph.D., Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987