Bruce Carlsten

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Bruce Carlsten is a senior research and development engineer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).

In 1985 Carlsten received his PhD from Stanford University following a BS from UCLA in 1979, then was a Fellow of the IEEE, the American Physical Society, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.{{cite web|title=2017 HEPAP Membership|url=https://science.energy.gov/hep/hepap/members/bios/|website=US Department of Energy|accessdate=23 January 2018}}

He was the leader of the High-Power Electrodynamics group at LANL From 2005 to 2012. In this role he oversaw this group's projects researching free-electron lasers, high-power and high-frequency microwave sources and effects, and accelerator components.{{cite web|title=The High Power Electrodynamics Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory|url=http://slsbd.web.psi.ch/pub/varia/Talk_Steve_Russel_June_2007.pdf|accessdate=23 January 2018}} then became the chief scientist for LANL's Navy-funded Free Electron Laser oscillator project{{cite web|url=https://www.helmholtz-berlin.de/media/media/grossgeraete/beschleunigerphysik/fel/fel_tdr_web.pdf|title=BESSY FEL Technical Design Report|accessdate=23 January 2018}} and is director of design at the Laboratory's future X-ray Free Electron Laser, the MaRIE (Matter-Radiation Interactions in Extremes) facility.{{cite web|title=Current Status of the MaRIE: (Matter-Radiation Interactions in Extremes)|url=http://pbpl.physics.ucla.edu/HBEB2013/Talks/SteveRussellHBEB13.pdf|accessdate=23 January 2018}}{{cite web|title=Bright lights, big science: Joel Williams helping unleash some of the world's brightest X-rays - SOURCE|url=https://source.colostate.edu/bright-lights-big-science-joel-williams-helping-unleash-worlds-brightest-x-rays/|website=SOURCE|accessdate=23 January 2018|date=15 February 2017}}

In 2016 Carlsten was named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) {{Cite web|url=https://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/2016_elevated_fellows.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151223105649/http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/2016_elevated_fellows.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 23, 2015|title=2016 elevated fellow|website=IEEE Fellows Directory}} for his contributions to the development of high-brightness electron beams and vacuum electron devices. In 2020, he will receive the American Physical Society's Division of the Physics of Beams' Wilson Prize.