Dr. Linda Young

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Biography

Linda Young is a distinguished fellow at Argonne National Laboratory and a professor of physics at the University of Chicago. She earned her S.B. from MIT and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Linda began her research career in the Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory, specializing in precision laser spectroscopy, electron scattering from polarized deuterium targets, and atom trap trace analysis involving x-ray interactions with matter in both linear and nonlinear regimes. She has served as the Director of the X-ray Science Division of the Advanced Photon Source and as Chair of the Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics at the American Physical Society. Linda is an active member of various scientific advisory boards and panels worldwide and has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society, awarded the JILA Visiting Fellowship, and named a Helmholtz International Fellow. Currently, her research focuses on investigating nonlinear x-ray interactions with matter, enabled by recent advancements in x-ray free electron lasers.

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Department of Philosophy