Research Scientist
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

office: 1010 Gerstacker Building
address: 2200 Bonisteel Blvd. - Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2099
email: tolya@umich.edu
phone: (734)763-6007, (734)763-4883 (Hercules) (734)763-5977 (T-cube)
fax: (734)763-4876

Research area keywords: Laser-matter interaction at relativistic intensities, table-top particle accelerators, high-power short pulse lasers.

Dr. Anatoly Maksimchuk has a PhD from Lebedev Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, where he participated in inertial confinement fusion program and studied radiation transport in a hot dense plasma of the thermonuclear targets. In 1992 Maksimchuk joined the University of Michigan attracted by the prospectives of using high-intensity lasers for production of hot dense plasma. His current research projects include studies of laser-matter interaction at relativistic intensities and the development of table-top plasma accelerators for production of high-energy electron and proton beams and their applications for radiation therapy, generation of short monochromatic x-ray pulses and radioisotope production. He is the head of the experimental areas at the Hercules facility and the head of the 15 TW hybrid Ti:sapphire/Nd:glass T-cube laser.