Rate My Professor Eleanor Tubman

Eleanor Tubman is an assistant professor of nuclear engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and an experimental physicist whose work bridges physics and nuclear engineering. Her research centers on laser-driven fusion and laboratory astrophysics, investigating the generation and evolution of electromagnetic fields in high-energy-density plasmas, production of collisionless shock waves, and development of diagnostics for measuring these fields. She earned an MPhys degree in Physics from the University of Sussex in 2012, with a master's thesis on particle physics searching for supersymmetric particles at the ATLAS detector. Tubman completed her PhD in 2016 at the University of York through the Fusion Doctoral Training Centre, supervised by Professor Nigel Woolsey, with a thesis entitled 'Magnetic Field Generation in Laser-Plasma Interactions'. Post-PhD, she served as a research associate at Imperial College London from 2016 to 2023 on the MAGPIE pulsed-power machine under Professor Sergey Lebedev's team. She collaborated on projects at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility and the Omega laser facility. From April 2023 to July 2024, she was a lecturer in experimental high-energy-density plasma physics at Imperial College London before joining Berkeley.