Ronald Ruth

Ronald Ruth, Ph.D. is President and Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Science Officer at Lyncean Technologies, Inc. He is Professor Emeritus at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University and is an expert on particle accelerators and the author of numerous publications about particle beam physics and accelerator technology. His research at SLAC concerns the development of new concepts for particle acceleration and beam manipulation for application to both high-energy accelerators and free-electron lasers. During the mid 90’s he led the development of the Next Linear Collider Test Accelerator, a test bed for x-band acceleration technology for future high-energy accelerators. The concept for the Lyncean Compact Light Source is a spin off from basic research performed by Professor Ruth and Dr. Zhirong Huang into a new electron damping mechanism called radiative laser cooling. Professor Ruth has been on review committees for many national laboratories. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and is a former member of the APS Council representing the Division of Physics of Beams.