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Kevin B. Fournier Phone: 925-423-6129 Kevin B. Fournier is a physicist in the Theory and Modeling Group in V Division. His current research focuses on laser-driven X-ray source development, nuclear survivability testing and high-energy-density experiments done on laser facilities around the world, including the OMEGA laser in Rochester New York, the GEKKO XII laser in Osaka Japan and the HELEN laser in England. He is currently designing X-ray exposure tests using novel X-ray sources for the National Ignition Facility currently under construction at LLNL. He received a BS in Physics and a BA in both Mathematics and History from Duke University in 1990, and a Ph.D. in physics from the Johns Hopkins University in 1996. He came to LLNL as a participating guest in 1992 and joined the Laboratory as a graduate student researcher in 1994. During his student and postdoctoral tenure at LLNL, he studied, both theoretically and experimentally, X-ray emission from highly charged impurity ions in magnetically confined fusion plasmas. He made several extended visits to tokamak facilities in Italy, Germany and Boston where he calculated radiative power-loss rates from impurity X-ray emission. Since 2001, he has worked both experimentally and theoretically with high-energy-density experiments for basic science, stockpile stewardship and homeland security. |
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