Toshiki Tajima is a Japanese theoretical plasma physicist known for pioneering the laser wakefield acceleration technique with John M Dawson in 1979.
13 Facts About Toshiki Tajima
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The technique is used to accelerate particles in a plasma and was experimentally realized in 1994, for which Tajima received several awards such as the Nishina Memorial Prize, the Enrico Fermi Prize, the Robert R Wilson Prize, the Hannes Alfven Prize and the Charles Hard Townes Award.
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Toshiki Tajima's works involve plasma physics, laser physics, nuclear fusion, plasma astrophysics, accelerator physics and medical applications of physics.
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Toshiki Tajima was born in the Aichi prefecture of Japan in 1948.
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Toshiki Tajima graduated from the University of Tokyo with a bachelor's degree in 1971 and a master's degree in 1973.
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Toshiki Tajima then received his doctorate from the University of California, Irvine in 1975, and became a post-doctoral student at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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From 1998 to 2001, Toshiki Tajima was Special Assistant to the Associate Director at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and from 2000 to 2002 he worked at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
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Toshiki Tajima has been at the KEK accelerator since 2008.
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Toshiki Tajima is currently a Rostoker Chair Professor at the University of California, Irvine.
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Toshiki Tajima was Chairman of the International Committee for Ultrahigh Intensity Lasers and Deputy Director of the International Center for Zetta-Exawatt Science and Technology at Ecole Polytechnique.
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Toshiki Tajima was Blaise Pascal Professor and Einstein Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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Toshiki Tajima is the Chief Science Officer of TAE Technologies, a company founded in 1998 that deals with aneutronic fusion power.
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Toshiki Tajima is a fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and of The Optical Society.