Dr. Vyacheslav (Slava) Lukin received the BA in Physics and Mathematics from Swarthmore College and PhD in Astrophysical Sciences from Princeton Univ.

His PhD studies, split between Princeton University and Los Alamos National Laboratory, were supported by graduate fellowships administered by ORISE Fusion Energy Sciences program and the National Science Foundation.

Dr. Lukin completed a DOE FES sponsored postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington in 2009, when he joined the staff of the Naval Research Laboratory, Space Sciences Division.

Dr. Lukin is the lead developer of the HiFi open source multi-fluid modelling framework with users around the world and published applications to laboratory, space, and solar plasmas.

Since late 2014, Dr. Lukin is a Program Director in the NSF Division of Physics with responsibility for programs in Plasma Physics and Accelerator Sciences.