Richard W. Lee
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
P.O. Box 808, L-XXX
Livermore, CA 94551-0808 USA
E-mail: lee32@llnl.gov
phone: 925-422-7209
fax: 415-520-0580
Educated at the Johns Hopkins University and receiving his Ph.D. in Physics in 1970 from University of Florida, he then did post-doctoral research at Imperial College, London. He joined the faculty in at Imperial College in 1973 leaving in 1984 for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. During this period he developed techniques, now widely used, to analyze the radiative properties of hot dense matter laboratory plasmas. In 1980’s he became the leader for DNT experiments on high-energy lasers at LLNL and continued to develop theoretical techniques for plasma spectroscopy. During this period he became an Associate Editor for Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer specializing in the area of High Energy density research. He is current leading the development of High Energy Density research on the 4th generation x-ray light sources in Europe and the United States. He is now the Senior Scientist in the Physics Department at LLNL and the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal “High energy Density Physics” launched in December 2005.