Thomas Germer
Physicist at NIST
Montgomery Village, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolThomas Germer is a physicist at NIST who specializes in measuring and modeling light scattering and the optical properties of surfaces and thin films. He has authored over 140 technical papers spanning surface spectroscopy, diffuse scattering, polarimetry, grating scatterometry, and biomedical optics, and leads development of the SCATMECH light-scattering codes, the MIST program, and the pySCATMECH Python package. His work blends experimental metrology with computational simulation to support critical-dimension and defect metrology, making him a go-to expert for precision optical characterization. Trained at UC Berkeley (BA) and Cornell (MS, PhD), he is a Fellow of SPIE and Optica and has sustained a long research career at NIST since 1992. Less obvious: beyond publications, he builds and maintains widely used open-source tools that translate niche scattering theory into practical metrology software.
9 years of coding experience
B.A., Physics, B.A., Physics at University of California, BerkeleyPhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at Cornell University
Github Skills (1)
polarization10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
usnistgov/SCATMECH
Aug 2017 - Dec 2022
Contributions:6 releases, 55 commits, 61 pushes in 5 years 5 months
usnistgov/pySCATMECH
Apr 2020 - Dec 2022
pySCATMECH is a Python interface to SCATMECH: Polarized Light Scattering C++ Class Library
Contributions:26 commits, 19 pushes, 3 comments in 2 years 8 months
brdfmueller-matrixpolarizationrcwascattering
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