Sarah Chase

Sarah Chase, Graduate Student Researcher at UCLA Plasma Simulation Group

Sarah Chase is a graduate student researcher at the UCLA Plasma Simulation Group, where she simulates laser plasma interactions (LPI) on powerful supercomputers for her PhD dissertation research.124 Her LinkedIn username is sarahechase.1

Education and Background

• Studied Physics and Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley before coming to UCLA for her PhD in Computational Plasma Physics2
• Graduate Student at UCLA6

Professional Experience and Expertise

• Expertise in Particle-In-Cell and Kinetic Simulation, Plasma Science, and Software Engineering
• Contributes to the OSIRIS simulation framework, an open-source particle-in-cell code for plasma simulation6
• Develops a framework of trusted components for building and customizing parallel particle-in-cell codes for plasma simulation using Fortran and Python3

Recent Contributions

• Presented research at the 65th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics in 20234
• Member of the UCLA Particle-in-Cell and Kinetic Simulation Software Center (PICKSC)5