Ed Moses

Who is Ed Moses?

Edward Moses is an American physicist and is the current principal associate director for the National Ignition Facility & Photon Science Directorate. He leads the California-based NIF, the largest experimental science facility in the US and the world’s most energetic laser, that hopes to demonstrate the first feasible example of usable nuclear fusion.

Ed Moses has 18 years of experience developing Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration laser systems and 30 years of experience developing and managing complex laser systems and high-technology projects. As associate director for the National Ignition Facility Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 2005 to 2007, he was responsible for completing construction and bringing into full operation the world’s largest optical instrument for achieving ignition in the laboratory and for studying inertial fusion energy.

Moses joined Lawrence Livermore in 1980, becoming program leader for Isotope Separation and Material Processing, and deputy AD for Lasers. From 1990 to 1995, he was a founding partner of Advanced Technology Applications, which advised clients on proposing on and designing high-technology projects. He returned to LLNL in 1995 as assistant AD for program development, Physics and Space Technology.