Thomas Schenkel is a physicist and senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he is the Program Head for Fusion Science and Ion Beam Technology in ATAP (http://atap.lbl.gov/).  Thomas received his PhD in physics from Goethe University, Frankfurt.  Following time as a postdoc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, he joined Berkeley Lab in 2000.  His research interests include novel accelerator concepts, materials far from equilibrium, exploration of fusion processes, and spin-photon qubit architectures.