Andrea Kritcher

Andrea Kritcher
Born
Andrea Lynn Kritcher
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
University of California, Berkeley
Scientific career
InstitutionsLawrence Livermore National Laboratory
ThesisUltrafast K-alpha Thomson scattering from shock compressed matter for use as a dense matter diagnostic (2009)

Andrea Lynn "Annie" Kritcher is an American nuclear engineer and physicist who works at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She was responsible for the development of Hybrid-E, a capsule that enables inertial confinement fusion. She was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2022.

She was named to Time 100 in 2023 for her role as leader and designer for the December 5 test in 2022 which achieved fusion ignition for the first time.

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