William Graves

William L. Graves is a Principal Research Scientist at MIT. His primary interests are in the development of accelerator-based X-ray sources that advance the current state of the art, including high repetition rate inverse Compton scattering based on compact superconducting linacs, methods of coherent inverse Compton scattering, novel RF photoinjector electron sources, and seeded free-electron lasers. Dr. Graves was awarded a B.S. degree in physics from San Francisco State University in 1989 and a Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1994. He was appointed as a Staff Scientist at the NSLS synchrotron at Brookhaven National Lab from 1993 until 2003, when he moved to MIT. At BNL, he participated in seeded FEL experiments including the first demonstration of seeded FEL operation at the Accelerator Test Facility. He also led accelerator development for the DUV-FEL, which demonstrated seeded FEL operation in the ultraviolet. Since arriving at MIT, he has collaborated in the design of X-ray FELs including the MIT XFEL and WiFEL projects. He is currently focused on development of a high repetition rate inverse Compton scattering X-ray source in collaboration with colleagues at Jefferson Lab and Northern Illinois University.

Biography Updated on 27 January 2011

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