Chi-Chang Kao

SLAC Director

Professional and Biographical Information

• B.S., Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, 1980
• Ph.D.,Chemical Engineering, Cornell University, 1988
• Brookhaven
  • PostDoc Research Assistant 1988-1990
  • Assistant Physicist 1990-1992
  • Associate Physicist 1992-1994
  • Physicist 1994-1997
  • Senior Physicist 2001
  • National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS)
    • Associate Chairman, User Science 2001-2005
    • Deputy Chairman 2005-2005
    • Chairman 2006-2010
  • Director, Joint Photon Sciences Institute, BNL/SBU 2008-2010
• Adjunct Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University 2003-2010
• Visiting Scientist, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution, Washington 2008-
• SLAC 
  • Associate Director and Director of SSRL 2010-2012
  • Director 2012-2023
  • Professor, Photon Science Directorate 2010-
• SLAC Profile
• Stanford Profile
• US Department of Energy (DOE) Profile
• Press coverage when named Director of SSRL: Journal of Synchrotron Radiation
• Press coverage when named SLAC Director: Photonics, Physics Today, San Jose Mercury News, symmetry magazine
• Chi-Chang Kao to step down as SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Director. SLAC News Release, October 27, 2022
• Lab Director Chi-Chang Kao reflects past decade as SLAC celebrates its 60th anniversary. By Glennda Chui, SLAC, December 15, 2022

Honors and Awards

• R&D 100 AWARDS"Sagittal focusing Laue monochromator for high- energy x-rays"; Zhong Zhong, J.B. Hastings, Chi-Chang Kao, D.P. Siddons, 2006
• Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2006
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2006
• Member, Editorial Board, "Advances in Synchrotron Radiation", World Scientific
• Member, Scientific Advisory committee, Taiwan Light Source
• Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, Swiss Light Source
• Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, Pohang Light Source
• Member, Advisory Committee of Carnegie-DOE Alliance Center (CDAC)

Publications

• Femtosecond electronic structure response to high intensity XFEL pulses probed by iron X-ray emission spectroscopy Alonso-Mori et al. Sci Rep. 2020 Oct 8;10(1):16837. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-74003-1
• Fermilab and SLAC: Looking Forward to Another Half-Century of Discovery in Chattopadhyay and Lykken, Fermilab at 50. World Scientific, 2017
• The Many Paths to STEM, by Chi-Chang Kao, May 30, 2018
• Challenges and Opportunities for the Next Decade of XFELS. Nat Rev Phys 2, 340–341 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42254-020-0196-2
• Lists of Director Chi-Chang Kao's other publications can be found on Google Scholar, ResearchGate, InSPIRE and IEEExplore

Presentations

• Testimony of Chi-Chang Kao, Ph.D. Lab Director, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology March 14, 2018
• Overview of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Chi-Chang Kao. Energy@Stanford & SLAC 2020

Archival Materials

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