Dr. Simon Bott-Suzuki

Simon Bott-Suzuki received the MPhys(ChemPhys) and Ph.D. degrees from Sheffield University, UK in 1999 and 2003 respectively. His Ph.D. thesis work investigated low density deuterium discharges for UV lighting applications. In 2003, he moved to the Plasma Physics Group at Imperial College London to research pulsed-power driven exploding wire plasmas for Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF). He joined the Center for Energy Research at UCSD in December 2006, where he is presently an Associate Research Scientist. Dr. Bott-Suzuki has published over 60 paper in peer-reviewed journals, and has presented over 30 talks at national and international conferences, including invited and plenary presentations. 

​My research interests center around the investigation of plasmas generated using high currents (many kilo-amperes) or short pulse laser systems. Such systems are interesting for a wide range of plasma science in High Energy Density (HED) physics topics, including laboratory astrophysics and the development and Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE), and radiation generation from x-rays to UV for lithography, metrology and microscopy.