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Dr. Hye-Sook Park has developed experimental techniques in plasma physics, materials science, nuclear physics, and astrophysics that have significantly enriched fundamental science, applied science, and national security science. Hye-Sook is an exemplar of experimental versatility, with a remarkable ability to step across science and technology boundaries to develop new experimental techniques and achieve new results with keen interdisciplinary insights. Hye-Sook began her study of physics at Pfeiffer College in North Carolina. After she obtained her BS in physics in 1981, she became a graduate student at the University of Michigan. She focused on experimental high-energy particle physics, obtaining her PhD in 1985. At that time she accepted a post doc position at the University of California, Berkeley, and then one at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in 1987. She has been a staff scientist at LLNL since 1989.