Philippe Regis Guy Piot

Philippe Piot joined Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) in 2024 as a full staff member. He currently serves as the Director of the Argonne Accelerator Institute (AAI) and Deputy Group Leader for the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator (AWA). Prior to this, Piot was a faculty member at Northern Illinois University (NIU) for two decades, where he held joint appointments with Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL) and later with ANL. At NIU, Piot was pivotal in the establishment of a research and education program focused on Accelerator Science and Engineering. During his tenure as director of the Northern Illinois Center for Accelerator & Detectors Development, Piot expanded the center into a multidisciplinary hub. While at NIU, Piot also served as research-theme leader for the Center for Bright Beams (CBB), a multi-institutional NSF Science & Technology Center based at Cornell University.

Piot earned his Ph.D. in 1999 from the University of Grenoble-Alpes (UGA) in France, conducting research at Jefferson Laboratory’s Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) and its high-power energy-recovering free-electron laser. Following his doctoral work, he joined the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg, Germany as a postdoctoral fellow, where he worked on accelerator science focusing on bright electron sources, collective effects, and free electron lasers. During his time at DESY, Piot was part of the team that successfully demonstrated self-amplified spontaneous emission (SASE) in the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) regime. He also worked on high-energy particle colliders as part of the International Linear Collider (ILC) project. Piot subsequently joined Fermilab in 2002 as an associate scientist (Peoples fellow), focusing on beam dynamics associated with ultra-bright electron beams, free-electron lasers, and advanced linear collider designs.

Piot’s current research interests span advanced acceleration techniques for multi-TeV linear colliders and compact light sources, novel radiation sources, charged-beam dynamics, ultra-fast lasers and electron sources for radiation generation and electron scattering. 

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