John L. Sarrao
John L. Sarrao | |
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Sarrao in 2013 | |
| 6th Director of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory | |
| Assumed office October 2, 2023 | |
| President | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | Chi-Chang Kao |
| Alma mater | Stanford University (BS) University of California Los Angeles (MS, PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Resonant ultrasound spectroscopy( RUS) study of the structural phase transition in lanthanum-strontium copper oxide (La(2-x) Sr(x) CuO(4)) (1993) |
| Doctoral advisor | W. Gilbert Clark |
John Louis Sarrao (born February 1, 1967) is an American physicist. He was the deputy director for science, technology, and engineering at Los Alamos National Laboratory. As of 2 October 2023, he became the sixth director of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory