Research Interests:
Plasmas, advanced accelerators and light sources use of plasma-based methods to explore new compact devices to accelerate particles and to generate high-power radiation.
His current research focuses on pioneering accelerator experiments at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and large-scale computations exploring the use of plasmas to greatly reduce the size of accelerators.
Biographical Information:
Ph.D. in Physics, 1984, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
Professor Katsouleas was an Associate Research Engineer/Adjunct Professor of Physics at UCLA from 1984 until coming to USC in 1991. Since then he has taught more than a dozen different courses in engineering, physics and general education at USC.
He served as Associate Dean of the School of Engineering from 1994-2001. Currently at USC he is chair of the USC Faculty Advisory Committee for High Performance Computing and Communication and is serving on the University Research Committee.
Professor Katsouleas recently co-authored a National Research Council Report on High Energy Density Physics. He is co-director of the newly forming ORION Center for Advanced Accelerator and Beam Physics Research at Stanford, USC and UCLA. Dr. Katsouleas is a Fellow of the IEEE and the American Physical Society. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science.
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