Mark Herrmann

Mark Herrmann is deputy program director for Fundamental Weapons Physics at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he has played a central role in the nation’s inertial confinement fusion program. Herrmann earned his Ph.D. in plasma physics from Princeton University before beginning his career at Livermore. He subsequently spent nine years at Sandia National Laboratories, where he directed the Pulsed Power Sciences Center, before returning to LLNL to serve as director of the National Ignition Facility. He received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.