2019 FEL Prize

The Young Scientist FEL Award is intended to honour an important contribution to FEL science and technology from a person who is less than 35 years of age.

The 2019 co-winners are

• Joe Duris (SLAC) for his contribution to the study of high-efficiency energy transfer in tapered FELs and inverse FELs and his role in the first demonstration of attosecond pulses from a current-enhanced X-ray FEL.

• Chao Feng (Shanghai Advanced Research Institute / SARI) for his contributions on developing seeding techniques for improving the properties of HGHG and EEHG FELs as well as storage ring based FELs.

The FEL prize is given to a person who has contributed significantly to the advancement of the field of Free-Electron Lasers.

The three scientists who won 2019 FEL prize are

• Enrico Allaria (Sincrotrone Trieste) for his seminal contributions to seeded FELs including advanced operating modes in HGHG FEL as well as the first demonstration of EEHG FEL in the soft X-ray regime.

• Alex Lumpkin (Argonne/Fermilab) for his seminal, time-resolved measurements of dynamics in FEL oscillators and the elucidation of microbunching in relativistic electron beams and SASE FELs.

• Gennady Stupakov (SLAC) for his invention of EEHG external seeding scheme as well as his numerous contributions to CSR and wakefield effects in high-brightness accelerators.