Vassilia Zorba (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA) - Advancing Ultrafast Laser Ablation Sampling From Femtosecond Filamentation to GHz Bursts of Ultrafast Laser Pulses
Dr. Vassilia Zorba is a Physicist Senior Scientist and Group Leader for the Laser Technologies Group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley CA. She is also an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include ultrafast laser-material interactions, non-linear optics, remote sensing, laser-induced plasma chemistry, and laser ablation-based chemical analysis in electrochemical energy storage, with emphasis on next-generation Li-ion batteries. Her work also focuses on high-throughput materials discovery through femtosecond laser processing and biomimetic material functionalization. Dr. Zorba is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Her credits include 90 publications in peer-reviewed journals, 60 invited talks and a 2011 R&D 100 Technology Award.