Roger Falcone Professor, Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley Address: One Cyclotron Road #80R0114, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94920, USA E-mail: rwf@berkeley.edu

Expertise : His degrees are from from Princeton and Stanford Universities. He has been a faculty member in the Physics Department at the University of California, Berkeley since 1983, and served as department chair from 1995-2000. Since 2006 he has served as the Director of the Advanced Light Source x-ray synchrotron facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His personal research activities involve the interaction of intense light with matter. He has published over 150 papers in this and related fields. Most recently his work has involved the use of the ultrashort pulse optical lasers to create warm and dense matter, the use of ultrashort pulse, extreme ultraviolet light to study chemical dynamics, the use of high-energy lasers to compress matter and create plasma x-rays that scatter from the matter, and the use of an x-ray laser to study plasmas. His newest work involves the use of the high-energy NIF laser at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to study the equation of state of matter at billion-atmosphere pressures. He serves on a variety of advisory and review committees for US and European research laboratories, as well as the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley, a science center focusing on K-12 education.