Kathleen Weichman

Kathleen Weichman
Position
PhD student
Biography

Kathleen Weichman graduated from UCSD in 2020 with a doctoral dissertation entitled "Effects of kilotesla-level applied magnetic fields on relativistic laser-plasma interactions". They are a recipient of the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship and hold a B.Sc. in Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Following graduation, they accepted a scientist position at the University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics.