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Jessica Shaw is both a National Science Foundation and National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow. She is a Ph.D. candidate in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of California Los Angeles. Her current research focuses on advancing the understanding of plasma-based particle acceleration, where a laser or an electron beam drives a wave in a plasma (much like a boat creates a wave behindit) that is capable of accelerating particles as they “surf” on this wave.
In this picture, Jessica is using a heat-pipe oven to create a meter-scale plasma source in which the research team can accelerate particles.Image credit: Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi, University of California Los Angeles
