Louise Willingale is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan and is the Associate Director for the 3 PW National Science Foundation sponsored laser facility ZEUS. She is a co-PI for X-lites (Extreme Light in Intensity, Time, and Space), an NSF sponsored multi-institution, international initiative to promote collaboration among researchers to make full use of the new laser facilities, promote cross-field connections, and encourage broad participation in frontier laser-driven science.  Primarily an experimentalist, her research uses high-intensity laser plasma interactions to study magnetic field generation, dynamics and reconnection, relativistic transparency, proton and ion acceleration and proton deflectometry. She received an NSF CAREER Award for research in laser-driven magnetic reconnection and is a Kavli Fellow.

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