Barbara F. Lasinski is a retired American physicist whose research focused on modeling and simulating the interactions between high-powered laser light and plasma.
She worked as a researcher at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on inertial confinement fusion projects including the Laser Inertial Fusion Energy effort and the National Ignition Facility.
[1] Lasinski began working for John Nuckolls at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the 1970s.
[1] She was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2002, after a nomination from the APS Division of Plasma Physics, "for development and application of particle-in-cell codes for laser-plasma interaction physics, and a long series of contributions to the understanding of the physics of targets for high-power laser experiments".
[1][2] In 2023 she was part of a group of researchers honored by Lawrence Livermore with a Director’s Science and Technology Award for achieving ignition in the National Ignition Facility.