Sébastien Le Pape is currently Deputy Director and Scientist of the Laboratory for the Use of Intense Lasers (LULI*), and a researcher at École Polytechnique. As an experimentalist, his thesis work focused on the study of the optical properties of X-ray lasers. He then spent 14 years at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, working mainly on the Inertial Confinement Fusion programme at the National Ignition Facility.
*LULI: a joint research unit CNRS, École Polytechnique - Institut Polytechnique de Paris, CEA, Sorbonne Université
