Roderich
Keller
- Senior Team Leader
Roderich Keller is a Senior Physicist in the Accelerator and
Fusion Research Division at Berkeley Lab and was Senior Team Leader
of the SNS Front-End Systems group up to the completion of the project
with the delivery of the Front End to the SNS site. For five years
before that he was Deputy Group Leader of the Accelerator Physics
Group at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source. His research
activities over the past 35 years span the range from plasma spectroscopy
and plasma technology over ion sources and low-energy beam transport
systems to electron storage rings and accelerator components, including
the fields of survey and alignment and magnetic measurements. He received
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from University of Kiel, Germany,
and has held scientific staff positions at Ges. f. Schwerionenforschung
(GSI) in Darmstadt, Germany, and at Berkeley Lab; he also spent two
years as a fellow of the European Community at Laboratori Gas Ionizzati
in Frascati, Italy, and a sabbatical year at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
He taught classes in ion sources and accelerator technology at Fachhochschule
Wiesbaden, Germany, was author or co-author for 150 scientific papers,
and contributed two chapters to Ian Brown, ed., "The Physics
and Technology of Ion Sources" (Wiley, 1989). He earned three
patents on ion sources and components and has collaborated with numerous
research institutions, developing ion sources and beam transport systems
for a variety of diagnostic and preparative applications
Dick
DiGennaro - Chief Engineer/Lead Engineer Electronics
Systems
Alessandro
Ratti - Lead Engineer Electronics Systems
Alessandro (Alex) Ratti is the lead electrical engineer for the front
end systems and engineering manager in the Engineering Division. He
is also the project manager for Berkeley Lab's efforts in the collaboration
on the LLRF system for the SNS linac. He has been working for over
15 years in the field of high power RF and RF cavity design for particle
accelerators. He graduated in Electrical Engineering at the Universita'
degli Studi di Pavia, working on a thesis on the warm model for the
quarterwave cavities for the superconduction linac at the Laboratori
Nazionali di Legnaro, under the guidance of Prof. Mario Puglisi. Since
his degree, he has contributed to the RF group at Brookhaven, working
first on the low frequency RF systems for the AGS booster and then
on the accelerating cavities for RHIC. Since joining LBNL, he has
led the efforts in the electronics for the SNS Front End systems and
has been involved in various roles with strategic planning and development
activities within the Engineering Division. Alex recently completed
his formal managerial training by earning his MBA at the Haas School
of Business, University of California, Berkeley.
John
Staples - Lead Beam Dynamics Physicist
