Brittany McClinton

Education

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  Shadow Mountain High School

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  4.0

  Activities and Societies: Speech and Debate (2nd at State 2001, Poetry), Treasurer Academic Decathlon (2nd at State 2000, Team), President Academic Decathlon (3rd at State 1999, Team), President Shakespeare Festival, Key Club, Environmental Awareness Group (EWAG), John C. Lincoln Hospital Volunteer (Pharmacy, Rehabilitation Center)- implemented 'Patient Pride' programFamily Youth Theatre (founded neighborhood theatrical society)Valley Youth Theatre, Phoenix, AZ (Veruca Salt- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; tech team- Little Women)

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  Yale University

  2001 - 2005

  Bachelor of Science - BS Physics

  Activities and Societies: Yale Scientific Magazine (Articles Editor, Features Editor, Copy Editor) Student Campaign for Child Survival (website maintenance) Hey!Zeus! (articles contributor to classical antiquities magazine) Alan S. Tetelman Traveling Fellowship for summer research in the sciences: with Reinhard Genzel at Max Planck Institut fur Extraterrestriche Physik (Garching, Germany, summers of 2003 & 2004); Robert B. Flint, Jr. Scholarship distinguished science scholar (2004); Educational scholarship from the Order of the Eastern Star (2004); Outstanding Anthropology Student (2002).Strong emphasis in Anthropology (physical, linguistic, cultural), art of the ancient near east, ancient egyptian… Show more Alan S. Tetelman Traveling Fellowship for summer research in the sciences: with Reinhard Genzel at Max Planck Institut fur Extraterrestriche Physik (Garching, Germany, summers of 2003 & 2004); Robert B. Flint, Jr. Scholarship distinguished science scholar (2004); Educational scholarship from the Order of the Eastern Star (2004); Outstanding Anthropology Student (2002).Strong emphasis in Anthropology (physical, linguistic, cultural), art of the ancient near east, ancient egyptian hieroglyphics (classic Middle, hieratic). Show less

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  University of California, Berkeley

  2005 - 2011

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

  Thesis: develop fast thin-mask aerial image models for all sources of LER based on Fourier and Statistical optics for EUV Lithography. Verify with wafer print on SEM from programmable coherence on beamline 12.0.1.3 at the Center for X-ray Optics, Advanced Light Source, LBNL. Advised by Patrick Naulleau, Andy Neureuther, and David Attwood.Graduate Student TA: under Eli Yablonovitch in teaching electromagnetic fields and waves, antenna theory.Research experience in synchrotron… Show more Thesis: develop fast thin-mask aerial image models for all sources of LER based on Fourier and Statistical optics for EUV Lithography. Verify with wafer print on SEM from programmable coherence on beamline 12.0.1.3 at the Center for X-ray Optics, Advanced Light Source, LBNL. Advised by Patrick Naulleau, Andy Neureuther, and David Attwood.Graduate Student TA: under Eli Yablonovitch in teaching electromagnetic fields and waves, antenna theory.Research experience in synchrotron radiation, nanofabrication, semiconductor process development. Zone plates, microscopy, e-beam lithography, AFM, TEM. FDTD, RCWA, and thin mask approximation simulations and modeling.IREE/NSF Grant for summer research abroad (2008): characterization of partial coherence of undulator 41 at BESSY (Adlershof, Germany). Show less