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Dr. Damien G. Hicks Email: hicks13@llnl.gov Damien received a B.S. and M.S. from Stanford University in 1993, and a Ph.D from MIT in 1999. His doctoral thesis was titled "Charged-particle spectroscopy: A new window on inertial confinement fusion". After completing a post-doc at MIT he came to LLNL in 2000 where he is presently a staff physicist. At LLNL he has worked in a variety of areas involving laser-driven shock waves, focusing on the equation-of-state and electronic properties of materials at high pressure and utilizing both short and long pulse laser systems. He has performed extensive work on several materials including deuterium, silica, sapphire, and lithium fluoride, developing a model for high-temperature insulating-to-conducting transitions and implementing new approaches to achieve high-precision equation-of-state measurements. His research interests are in nuclear fusion, planetary interiors, strongly-coupled plasmas, and the quantum-classical transition.
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