Suzanne J. Ali is an experimental physicist in the Applications of High Energy Density Materials Group in Physics at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Her work is split between two main projects, the development of uncertainty-aware material models to propagate experimental and model uncertainties into simulations and Campaign Lead for Ramp Compression at the National Ignition Facility (NIF).

For the NIF Ramp Compression campaign, Suzanne leads a small team of researchers to make very precise measurements of compressibility for materials of programmatic interest up to very high densities (~2-4x ambient density). These measurements are important for constraining the thermodynamic material models used to simulate and predict dynamic events.

She received a Ph. D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 2015, focusing on the development and application of novel diagnostics for nanosecond time-scale dynamic compression experiments with Prof. Raymond Jeanloz as her advisor. Her technical expertise is in high pressure physics experiments using laser, explosive, and pulsed power drivers, associated data analysis and experiment modelling, and uncertainty quantification.