Yuan Ping is a group leader in Physics Division and a program manager for Advanced Capability Development in High-energy-density science. She joined LLNL as a Lawrence Fellow in 2003. She has broad research interests in HED physics, including materials under dynamic compression, warm dense matter, energy transport, ignition applications, and laser-plasma interactions, etc.

Ph.D. Plasma Physics, Princeton University

B.S. Physics, University of Science and Technology of China

• APS Fellow in 2015 
• DOE Early Career Research Program Grant in 2013
• APS/DPP Katherine E. Weimer Award in 2011