Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
| thomas.katsouleas@uconn.edu | |
| Mailing Address | Electrical and Computer Engineering 371 Fairfield Way U-4157 Storrs, Connecticut 06269-4157 |
| Campus | Storrs |
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Brief Bio
Thomas Christos Katsouleas (known as "TomKat" by students) is an American physicist, engineer, and academic administrator. In February 2019, he was named the 16th president of the University of Connecticut and officially began his term in August. Katsouleas began his undergraduate education at Santa Monica Community College and received his bachelor's degree from University of California, Los Angeles in 1979, earning his Ph.D. in physics from UCLA in 1984.
After graduating from UCLA, Katsouleas taught there for seven years before joining the faculty of the University of Southern California in 1991 as an associate professor of physics. In 1997, he was named a full professor. Katsouleas was vice provost for information services at USC and also was an associate dean of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.
He founded the NAE Grand Challenges Summit in Durham in 2009. In 2010, Katsouleas started Duke's Katsouleas NAE Grand Challenge Scholars Program, which challenges students to use their knowledge to work on challenges posed by the National Academy of Engineering.
- Plasma-based Particle Accelerators: Exploring how plasmas can be used to accelerate particles to high energies, with the potential to lower the cost of future high-energy colliders. He has been involved in projects and research related to both laser-driven and beam-driven plasma accelerators. He even reminisces about his undergraduate research on plasma-based particle accelerators in the field of electrical engineering and applied physics.
- High-Power Light Sources: His work extends to developing new and improved methods for generating radiation, as evidenced by his 1998 patent for a device that generates adjustable, high-power pulses of radiation with applications in diverse fields such as communications, advanced radar, medicine, and research.
- Optics and Photonics: Katsouleas has a strong presence and has been a strong advocate of research, education, outreach, and entrepreneurship in optics and photonics, making a substantial impact in these fields on a global scale.
| Acceleration of electrons by the interaction of a bunched electron beam with a plasma
P Chen, JM Dawson, RW Huff, T Katsouleas
Physical review letters 54 (7), 693
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| Energy doubling of 42 GeV electrons in a metre-scale plasma wakefield accelerator
I Blumenfeld, CE Clayton, FJ Decker, MJ Hogan, C Huang, R Ischebeck, ...
Nature 445 (7129), 741-744
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| Nonlinear theory for relativistic plasma wakefields in the blowout regime
W Lu, C Huang, M Zhou, WB Mori, T Katsouleas
Physical review letters 96 (16), 165002
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| OSIRIS: A three-dimensional, fully relativistic particle in cell code for modeling plasma based accelerators
RA Fonseca, LO Silva, FS Tsung, VK Decyk, W Lu, C Ren, WB Mori, ...
International conference on computational science, 342-351
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| Unlimited electron acceleration in laser-driven plasma waves
T Katsouleas, JM Dawson
Physical Review Letters 51 (5), 392
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| Acceleration and focusing of electrons in two-dimensional nonlinear plasma wake fields
JB Rosenzweig, B Breizman, T Katsouleas, JJ Su
Physical Review A 44 (10), R6189
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| Photon accelerator
SC Wilks, JM Dawson, WB Mori, T Katsouleas, ME Jones
Physical review letters 62 (22), 2600
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| Ultrahigh gradient particle acceleration by intense laser-driven plasma density waves
C Joshi, WB Mori, T Katsouleas, JM Dawson, JM Kindel, DW Forslund
Nature 311 (5986), 525-529
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| Physical mechanisms in the plasma wake-field accelerator
T Katsouleas
Physical Review A 33 (3), 2056
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| Beam loading in the nonlinear regime of plasma-based acceleration
M Tzoufras, W Lu, FS Tsung, C Huang, WB Mori, T Katsouleas, J Vieira, ...
Physical review letters 101 (14), 145002
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| Beam loading efficiency in plasma accelerators
SWT Katsouleas, JDJ Su
Part. Accel 22, 81-99
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| A nonlinear theory for multidimensional relativistic plasma wave wakefields
W Lu, C Huang, M Zhou, M Tzoufras, FS Tsung, WB Mori, T Katsouleas
Physics of Plasmas 13 (5)
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| Raman forward scattering of short-pulse high-intensity lasers
WB Mori, CD Decker, DE Hinkel, T Katsouleas
Physical review letters 72 (10), 1482
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| Plasma wakefield acceleration experiments at FACET
MJ Hogan, TO Raubenheimer, A Seryi, P Muggli, T Katsouleas, C Huang, ...
New Journal of Physics 12 (5), 055030
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| The evolution of ultra‐intense, short‐pulse lasers in underdense plasmas
CD Decker, WB Mori, KC Tzeng, T Katsouleas
Physics of Plasmas 3 (5), 2047-2056
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| Multi-GeV energy gain in a plasma-wakefield accelerator
MJ Hogan, CD Barnes, CE Clayton, FJ Decker, S Deng, P Emma, ...
Physical review letters 95 (5), 054802
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| High performance computing in particle accelerator science and technology-OSIRIS: a three-dimensional, fully relativistic particle in cell code for modeling plasma based …
RA Fonseca, LO Silva, FS Tsung, VK Decyk, W Lu, C Ren, WB Mori, ...
Lecture notes in computer science 2331, 342-351
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| QUICKPIC: A highly efficient particle-in-cell code for modeling wakefield acceleration in plasmas
C Huang, VK Decyk, C Ren, M Zhou, W Lu, WB Mori, JH Cooley, ...
Journal of Computational Physics 217 (2), 658-679
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| Wave-breaking amplitude of relativistic oscillations in a thermal plasma
T Katsouleas, WB Mori
Physical review letters 61 (1), 90
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| Ionization-induced electron trapping in ultrarelativistic plasma wakes
E Oz, S Deng, T Katsouleas, P Muggli, CD Barnes, I Blumenfeld, ...
Physical review letters 98 (8), 084801
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