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John Galayda

Professor (Emeritus)
Particle Physics and Astrophysics

Professional Academic History

Assistant Physicist, National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1977- 1979; Associate (Project) Physicist, National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1979- 1984; Group Leader, Diagnostics Group, National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1984- 1985; Section Head, Computer/Controls/Diagnostics Section, National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1985- 1987; Associate Chairman for Accelerators, National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1987- 1990; Director of the Accelerator Systems Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, 1990- 1999; Deputy Associate Laboratory Director, Advance Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, 1999- 2001; Director, LCLS Construction Project, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, 2001- Present; Professor of Photon Science and PPA, SLAC, Stanford, 2005 – present.

Areas of Interest and Research

Manipulation and control of electron beams using laser light, the characteristics of synchrotron radiation from an FEL and beam-based feedback stabilization systems. The last topic is relevant to light sources based on storage rings and energy recover linacs as well as to FELs.

Education

B.A., 1970, Lehigh University; Ph.D., 1977, Rutgers University.

Awards & Honors

Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, 1970; RandD Award for global feedback orbit control, 1989; Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1996; FEL Prize, 2012; APS Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators, 2013.

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John Galayda

Contact

galayda@slac.stanford.edu
(650) 926-2371 (telephone)

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SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
2575 Sand Hill Road MS 29
Menlo Park, CA 94025
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