Kelly Gaffney

Associate Professor of Photon Science and, by courtesy, of Chemistry; Photon Science Department Chair, Interim - Associate Lab Director, Energy Sciences

Professional and Biographical Information

B.S. Chemistry Evergreen State College, Olympia WA 1993
Ph. D. Chemistry University of California Berkeley, CA 2001
Analytical Chemist, BOC Gases 1993-1995
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Stanford University 2001-2003
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) 2003-2004
Assistant Professor, Photon Science, SLAC, Stanford University 2004-2013
Principal Investigator, PULSE 2007-present
Associate Professor, Photon Science, SLAC, Stanford University 2013-present
Deputy chair, Photon Science department, SLAC, Stanford University, 2013-2014
Associate Laboratory Director, SSRL 2014-2019
Participant, Committee of Visitors, Department of Energy - Basic Energy Sciences Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences Division, 2017
Participant, Department of Energy - Basic Energy Sciences Roundtable on Opportunities for Basic Research at the Frontiers of XFEL Ultrafast Science 2017
Council member on the Department of Energy - Basic Energy Sciences Council for Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences, 2018-present
Deputy Associate Laboratory Director, SLAC Energy Sciences Directorate 2019-present
Chemical Sciences Division Director, SLAC Energy Sciences Directorate 2019-present
Participant, Committee of Visitors, Department of Energy - Basic Energy Sciences Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences Division, 2020
Chair, Photon Science Department, SLAC, Stanford University 2020-present
Member, Advanced Photon Source Scientific Advisory Committee 2020-present
Established chemical dynamics research at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory facilitated by a grant from the W.M. Keck foundation.
Led the LCLS ultrafast dynamics x-ray pump-probe (XPP) end-station design group
Stanford Chemistry Department profile
Stanford Faculty profile
SLAC profile
US DOE profile
Meet Director Kelly Gaffney, 2014-2019

Awards and Honors

Fellow, American Physical Society, 2024

Publications

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