Thomas Schenkel is a physicist and senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he serves as Head of the Fusion Science and Ion Beam Technology Program in the Accelerator Technology and Applied Physics Division.

He obtained his Ph.D. from the Goethe University, Frankfurt/M. Following postdoctoral research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, he joined Berkeley Lab in 2000.

His current research interests include particle accelerators, materials far from equilibrium, and the exploration of spin-photon qubits.