Ali Sundermier

Science Communications Officer and Social Media Lead

Ali came to SLAC in 2018 from the University of Pennsylvania where she was a science writer. She covers very cool (or very hot, or sometimes room temperature) research happening at LCLS, the lab’s giant X-ray laser. She is also the social media lead, which explains the occasional bad pun or adorable animal pic on our channels. When she’s not working, you can probably find her helicopter parenting her three cats or pretending not to be afraid of bugs.

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Press Release

Studying a material that even more closely resembles the composition of ice giants, researchers found that oxygen boosts the formation of diamond rain.

SLAC Science Explained

Molecular movie-making is both an art and a science; the results let us watch how nature works on the smallest scales.

Press Release

The facility, LCLS-II, will soon sharpen our view of how nature works on ultrasmall, ultrafast scales, impacting everything from quantum devices to clean energy.

News Feature

Researchers mimicked these extreme impacts in the lab and discovered new details about how they transform minerals in Earth’s crust.

News Feature

Less than a millionth of a billionth of a second long, attosecond X-ray pulses allow researchers to peer deep inside molecules and follow electrons...

Illustration of attosecond coherent electron motions.

News Feature

Through her work with this nationwide program, Curry plans to make high-power laser facilities more accessible to researchers.

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SLAC science explained

NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST

Careers at SLAC

Revealing the Secrets of Transistors using Supercomputers

Ali Sundermier

‘Diamond rain’ on giant icy planets could be more common than previously thought

XFELs: Spying on atoms and molecules

SLAC’s superconducting X-ray laser reaches operating temperature colder than outer space

‘Fingerprinting’ minerals to better understand how they are affected by meteorite collisions

Researchers use attosecond X-ray pulses to track electron motion in a highly excited quantum state of matter

Laser-focused: Chandra Breanne Curry appointed first LaserNetUS coordinator

Written by Ali Sundermier