Portrait of Tammy Ma

Science Breakthrough

Tammy Ma

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Tammy Ma

  • 2024
  • Jury
  • Physical Sciences
  • 2023
  • Speaker
  • Physical Sciences

Dr. Tammy Ma is the Lead for the Inertial Fusion Energy Initiative at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, U.S.A. She is a member of the team that achieved fusion ignition in December 2022 at the National Ignition Facility, demonstrating more energy from fusion than the energy used to drive it, for the first time in history. Tammy holds a B.S. from Caltech, and M.S. and Ph.D. from UC San Diego. She is the recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. She was a Breakthrough Day speaker at Falling Walls 2023.