Peter Celliers is a staff scientist at LLNL where he works in the fields of high energy density physics and inertial confinement fusion.  He received his Ph.D. in 1987 and M.A.Sc. in 1983 from the University of British Columbia and B.Sc. in 1980 from Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario.  Dr. Celliers joined LLNL in 1994 following post-doctoral work in 1988 at the Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics, a two-year research associate assignment at UBC starting in 1989 and two years working in a start-up company developing plasma-based spectroscopic instrumentation.  During his early years at LLNL he developed soft x-ray laser interferometry systems, laser-based optical diagnostics for biomedical applications and optical instrumentation for high energy density sciences including the line-imaging VISAR implementations at the OMEGA and NIF facilities.  He has participated in many dynamic compression studies of hydrogen isotopes which have depended on imaging VISARs as the primary diagnostic. Dr. Celliers received the APS John Dawson award for excellence in plasma physics research in 1998 for studies on shock-compressed hydrogen and again in 2022 as part of the NIF-ICF team for demonstration of a burning plasma.  He was elected a fellow of the APS in 2007 and is the 2023 Chair of the APS Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter.