Antoinette (Toni) Taylor is a CINT Affiliate Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. She is a pioneer in electromagnetic metamaterials, terahertz science and technology, and applying coherent control techniques to ultrafast optics, which provide unique insight into condensed-matter physics. Antoinette made key contributions in the exploration of basic properties of superconductors through ultrafast techniques, made important demonstrations of exquisite control of phase and amplitude in ultrafast pulses leading to coherent control of propagation in fibers, and has contributed to novel metamaterial concepts leading to devices with unique dielectric properties. Formerly, Antoinette was the Associate Laboratory Director for Physical Sciences at LANL, overseeing R&D of ~1,000 researchers in physics, materials science, manufacturing science, and accelerator technologies.
At LANL, she also served as the director of the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, a joint Sandia/LANL nanoscience center funded through DOE Basic Energy Sciences, the leader of the Materials Physics and Applications Division, and the Deputy Associate Director for Chemistry, Life and Earth Sciences. Her research interests include ultrafast dynamical processes in quantum and nanoscale materials, electromagnetic metamaterials, and the development of spatially and temporally local probes. Taylor is the author or co-author of over 370 peer-reviewed articles resulting from this research.
Expertise
- Investigation of ultrafast dynamical nanoscale processes in quantum, nanoscale and strongly correlated materials
- Development of novel optics-based measurement techniques for the understanding of new phenomena, including spatially and temporally local probes
- Development and understanding of electromagnetic metamaterials
- Terahertz science and technology
Education
PhD, MS, BS, Stanford University
Awards
- Best Poster, National Nuclear Security Administration, 2010
- Fellows Prize for Special Achievement, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2010
- Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2009
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2006
- Fellows Prize for Outstanding Leadership in Science or Engineering, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2003
- Fellow, Optica, 2001
- Fellow, American Physical Society, 2001
Service
- SLAC Science and Technology Advisory Committee
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Chair, 2023–present
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Member, 2020–2023
- APS Arthur Schawlow Prize Committee
- Chair, 2020
- Vice-Chair, 2019
- APS Division of Materials Physics
- Past-Chair, 2021–2022
- Chair, 2020–2021
- Chair-Elect, 2019–2020
- Vice-Chair, 2018–2019
- Panel on Public Affairs, American Physical Society, 2015
- Chair, American Physical Society, 2014
- Vice Chair, American Physical Society, 2011
- American Physical Society, Division of Laser Science
- Chair, Nominating Committee, 2016–2017
- Past-Chair, 2015
- Chair, 2014
- Chair-Elect, 2013
- Vice-Chair, 2012
- Member-at-Large, 2008–2010
- Member, Solid State Science Committee, Board of Physics and Astronomy, National Academies, 2005–2008
- Member, U.S. Advisory Committee for the International Commission for Optics, 2003–2005
- Director-at-Large, Optical Society of America, 2001–2004
- Topical Editor, Journal of the Optical Society B: Optical Physics, 1998–2004
