Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Wim Leemans is the director of the Accelerator Division and Member of the Board of Directors at DESY in Hamburg, Germany. He is also a Professor (W3) of Accelerator Physics at the University of Hamburg. Leemans received his PhD at UCLA and joined Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in 1991. He became a group leader in 1993, and in 1994 started the LOASIS Program (Lasers, Optics and Accelerator Systems Integrated Studies), now known as BELLA Center. He was a senior scientist since 2001 and Director of the Accelerator Technology and Applied Physics Division from January 2014 till January 2019. Since February 1, 2019 he is Director of the Accelerator Division at DESY, Hamburg, Germany. He has served on many national and international panels, including the 2013-2014 DOE-HEP and NSF Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5). Leemans is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Physical Society (APS), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He has received recognition that includes the 1992 APS Simon Ramo Award for his dissertation, the 1996 Klaus Halbach Award, the 2005 United States Particle Accelerator School Prize for Achievement in Accelerator Physics and Technology, the 2009 E.O. Lawrence Award from the U.S. Department of Energy, the 2010 American Physical Society John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research, the 2012 Advanced Accelerator Concepts Prize, the 2014 Department of Energy Secretary’s Achievement Award for the BELLA Project and the 2016 IEEE Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Award. Leemans is especially proud of having been the research advisor for more than 20 Ph.D. students thus far, including three who received outstanding dissertation awards from professional societies.
I founded the L’OASIS Group in 1993 and in 2012 changed its name to the BELLA Center.
I was an employee at LBNL from October 1, 1991 till end of January 2019