Susan Schima (Fed)

Susan Schima is a Fabrication Engineer in the Atomic Devices and Instrumentation Group at NIST, where she has pioneered 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 atomic devices created in her Group, such as high-precision 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. 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.