Under his leadership, the lab diversified its research portfolio, expanded its science impact, advanced major projects, increased collaboration with Stanford and met the challenges of a global pandemic.

Two GEM Fellows reflect on their summer internships at SLAC and share their thoughts on representation and mentorship.

The award celebrates Huang’s achievements studying atom-scale physics with fast X-ray pulses.

Gustavo Cezar wears two colorful hats as an engineer with SLAC’s GISMo lab.

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is a Department of Energy national lab run by Stanford in the heart of Silicon Valley. We invent scientific tools to explore the universe at its biggest, its smallest and its fastest.

After decades of experience in the DOE lab system and as director of a leading synchrotron light source, he’s back to where he earned his PhD – with a much bigger mission.