Roger Falcone, PhD

Roger Falcone is a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley.

He served as president of the American Physical Society, director of the Advanced Light Source x-ray synchrotron at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and has co-authored 200 publications in fields ranging from ultrafast laser science to plasma physics. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the Optical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He serves on the faculty advisory committee for the Lawrence Hall of Science and advisory committees for various national and international laboratories. Roger received his BS in physics from Princeton University and his PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University.