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Susan Schima (Fed)
Susan Schima is a Fabrication Engineer in the Atomic Devices and Instrumentation Group at NIST, where she has pioneered cleanroom fabrication techniques to adapt standard cleanroom processing to large-thickness wafers. These large-thickness wafers are used to create the vessels that contain atomic vapors and are the foundation of most of the miniature quantum devices created in her Group, such as high-precision atomic clocks, magnetometers and gyroscopes. In addition to cleanroom work, Susan is committed to maintaining the health of NIST by upholding safety practices and encouraging the influx of early-career new hires as Co-Director of the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program. She received her BS from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1991 and her MS from the University of Arizona in 1994.
Awards
- 2024 Colleagues' Choice Award
- 2024 PML Internal Award for Excellence in Cooperation, Collaboration, and Teamwork