About MAEBL Board of Directors

---

Dr. Justin C. Wirth is a Research Engineer in the Birck Nanotechnology Center at Purdue University. He maintains and operates the North American demonstration JEOL JBX-8100FS, and over the last 10 years has also previously used Raith EBPG 5200 and Leica/Vistec/Raith VB6 EBL systems. His current work focuses on making EBL knowledge more openly accessible, enabling higher throughput exposures. and exploring safer developers. As the inaugural MAEBL Technology Officer, Justin established the MAEBL wiki known as MAEBLpedia.

Dr. Guy A. DeRose came to Caltech from the Air Force Research Laboratory in 1994 and is now the Associate Director of Technical Operations for the Kavli Nanoscience Institute (KNI). A core mission of the KNI is to push the state-of-the-art beyond current capabilities in nanofabrication. A large part of his daily activity includes managing two Raith EBPG electron beam lithography systems, from routine operations to training users, and coordinating maintenance with other technical staff and vendors. His research includes using electron-beam lithography and anisotropic etching to fabricate semiconductor lasers and nanophotonic systems and is pushing the envelope on new resist capabilities that go well beyond traditional polymer materials. Prior to joining Caltech, Guy earned his B.S. in Physics from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from Case Western Reserve University. His graduate research used X-ray absorption techniques with synchrotron radiation to study the mechanical properties of thin metal films. Guy joined the MAEBL Board in 2020, and is very excited to be hosting the event in-person at Caltech in September 2022.

Mr. Mason Risley is a member of technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories. He carries over 10 years of technical experience in the semiconductor field including design, integration, and process development. Mason started his career in industry as an R&D process integration engineer designing and fabricating next gen high powered solid state LEDs at Cree Inc. In 2016 he joined the Claire & John Bertucci Nanotechnology Lab at Carnegie Mellon University, specifically supporting the startup and operation of the newly built state of the art cleanroom facility. While at CMU he was also the tool owner of an Elionix ELS-G100 EBL system until his departure in 2021. Mason has been involved with MAEBL since their first meeting in spring of 2017 and has been a member of the MAEBL board since 2021. Mason earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Dr. Allison Dove is a Process Engineer at the Marvell Nanofabrication Laboratory at the University of California Berkeley. She operates and maintains a Crestec CABL-UH and a Crestec CABL-9000 tool, with past experience working on both a Raith e-line as well as a Nabity system. She strives to understand all things lithography, including a deep-UV photolithography stepper, direct write laser system, and contact aligners in addition to the EBL tools. Helping researchers select the best tool for their individual needs is especially fulfilling. 

Ms. Cecilia Fasano is a graduate student pursuing a PhD in physics at the University of Iowa in the DeRoo and Hoadley Research Groups. Her work, supported by a NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) grant, makes use of electron beam lithography in concert with other nanofabrication techniques to develop next-generation diffraction gratings for application in ultraviolet astronomy. She is interested in cross-disciplinary research and the ways that technology development can both push science to new frontiers and solve important real-world problems. Outside of her research, Cecilia is passionate about mentoring and education of early-career researchers. She founded Iowa’s Graduate Mentoring in Astronomy and Physics (GradMAP)program, serves on her department’s Graduate Student Advisory Committee, and continues to advocate for student voices within her community. 

Mr. Mark K Mondol joined Prof. Hank Smith's NanoStructures Lab at MIT in 1990. He soon took over operation of a 50keV, LaB6 tool donated by IBM's e-beam lithography research group. In 2000 he received the first Raith 150 tool in North America, making 2 tools available to MIT e-beam lithographers. In 2012 MIT purchased an Elionix 125 keV tool and a decade later a 50 keV tool,  which he now manages for MIT.nano. Mark has given many talks and helped develop a wide array of  e-beam fabrication processes. He has trained over 350 e-beam lithography users and helped guide them through their research. His previous experience with Ringling Bros. circus proved very useful in these tasks. 

Mrs. Aimee Bross Price is the Manager for Nanofabrication at The Ohio State University Nanotech West Lab. She joined Ohio State in 2005 as a Senior Research Associate responsible for electron beam lithography (EBL). She has been a Member of Technical Staff with the Institute for Materials Research (IMR) since its inception. She has extensive experience in semiconductor device fabrication, nanofabrication, process development, and process design and troubleshooting. Aimee is passionate about training the next generation of technology experts and believes that encouraging and motivating K-12 students is crucial for continued growth in the field (and it is really fun). Aimee is the EIPBN 2022 and 2023 Commercial Session Chair and the upcoming 2024 EIPBN Conference Chair. Aimee also serves as co-founder and President of MAEBL Inc, a not-for-profit corporation focused on building and enhancing the EBL community. MAEBL hosts the Meeting for Advanced Electron Beam Lithography each year, live or virtually, in various US academic sites. Prior to her arrival at OSU, Aimee spent five years at TriQuint Semiconductor (now Qorvo) in Dallas, Texas, where she was a member of the EBL group in the Process Engineering Department. She holds a B.S. in Chemistry from The Pennsylvania State University, where she did surface chemistry research with the research groups of Professors Paul Weiss and David Allara. Her current research interests in Professor Tyler Grassman and Steven A. Ringel groups are in the area of integrated nanostructures within III-V and III-nitride epitaxial materials.

Dr. Gerald Lopez is the Director of Operations and Business Development at the University of Pennsylvania Singh Center for Nanotechnology. His professional experience encompasses litho process development and tooling as a former manager at the Singh Center's Quattrone Nanofabrication Facility; technical sales and support in direct-write lithography at GenISys, Inc.; software engineering at SITA; his former nanotechnology consultancy, Helio Nano, LLC; and his time as a graduate researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Gerald is the Board Chair and co-founder of the Meeting for Advanced Electron Beam Lithography (MAEBL). He also serves in the organization and planning leadership for the International Conference on Electron, Ion and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication (EIPBN) and was the EIPBN 2021 Conference Chair. He is passionate about education, mentorship, and connecting the next generation to nano-enabled opportunities. Gerald received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology (under the advisement of  Dr. James D. Meindl and Jeffrey A. Davis) and his B.S. in Computer Engineering cum laude from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County as  Meryerhoff Scholar (M9) and Janice A. Lumpkin Scholar.