Congratulations to Marisa Petrusky, who received the 2021 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Marisa has been an outstanding undergraduate researcher in the Plasma Accelerator Group since summer of 2020. Marisa’s one of only four students from Stony Brook University to receive this award this year and is the second student from the Stony Brook’s Plasma Accelerator Group who has received this award (Audrey Farrell received it in 2020). Her undergraduate thesis research revolves around simulation of electrons probing plasma wakefields and is available here.

Congrats Marisa on this very well deserved recognition.