Prof Gianluca Gregori (head of the group)

Prof Gregori research interests cover laboratory astro-particle physics with high power lasers, dense plasmas as found in interior of stars and planets, and inertial confinement fusion (ICF) energy. He started at Oxford University in October 2007 as as an RCUK Fellow in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics. In 2012 he became Fellow and Tutor of Physics at Lady Margaret Hall, and in 2013 he was appointed Professor of Physics.

From 2001 to 2005 Prof Gregori worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (USA), in the Fast Ignitor Physics group within the ICF Program. He was a post-doctoral researcher from 2001 to 2003 and then appointed as staff scientist. From 2005-2012, Prof Gregori has been holding a senior experimental scientist position at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

He received a Ph.D. and a M.S. from the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, USA) and a M.S. from the University of Bologna (Italy). In 2007, Prof Gregori's team was awarded a 2007 Daiwa Adrian Prize for its research into ‘High energy density science: new frontiers in plasma physics’. In 2014 Prof Gregori was awarded the Edouard Fabre International Scientific prize for contribution to the physics of inertial fusion and of laser-produced plasmas. Prof Gregori was recipient of the 2019 and 2020 John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics by the American Physical Society, and the 2022 Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin Medal and Prize by the  Institute of Physics Physics.

Prof Gregori is fellow of the American Physical Society (USA) and Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK).

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