Saša Bajt is a project leader for x-ray optics at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She is currently developing optics for FEL applications and studies of optics damage. She received her PhD from the University of Heidelberg and worked for the University of Chicago developing synchrotron-based x-ray techniques. She received a Hawley medal for the innovation and application of microbeam x-ray absorption fine-structure (XAFS) to mineralogical research. She is an SPIE member.