Alla S. Safronova

Alla S. Safronova (Member, IEEE) was born in Moscow, Russia. She received the Ph.D. degree in physics from the Institute of General Physics, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, in 1986. From 1994 to 1998, she was a Visiting Scientist and then a Post-Doctoral Research Associate with the Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA, where she has been an Associate Research Professor since 1998 and is currently a Research Professor. She is one of the pioneers in the application of X-ray line polarization to astrophysical and laboratory plasmas. Her former Ph.D. students are working with Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA, scientific companies, and also abroad. She has authored or coauthored more than 220 papers. Her current research interests include studying radiation from and processes in high-energy-density plasmas, such as Z-pinch and high-power laser plasmas, and tokamak plasmas. Dr. Safronova served on the IEEE Plasma Science and Applications Executive Committee from 2015 to 2017. She organized and co-chaired the series of international workshops on radiation from high-energy-density plasmas (RHEDP 2011, 2013, and 2015) and the 10th International Conference on Dense Z-Pinches (DZP2017) and sessions at the International Conferences on Plasma Science (ICOPS) and other international meetings on plasma physics. She was the General Chair of the ICOPS 2021. She was a Guest Editor of the 5th Special Issue of the IEEE TPS on Z-pinch Plasmas in 2012, two special topic sections on RHEDP of Physics of Plasmas in 2014 and 2016, and the 7th Special Issue of the IEEE TPS on Z-Pinch Plasmas in 2018.