Tammy Ma, Ph.D.

Dr. Tammy Ma is the lead for the Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) Initiative at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She was a member of the team at the National Ignition Facility that achieved fusion ignition in December 2022 — an experiment that, for the first time in history, released more energy than it consumed. Tammy serves on the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee, where she has helped author a long-range plan for U.S. efforts in fusion and chaired the IFE Basic Research Needs study. She is the recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering, and is a fellow of the American Physical Society.