Emily Gallagher

Emily Gallagher is a director of the SSTS (Sustainable Semiconductor Technologies and Systems) program at imec, focusing on sustainability in semiconductor manufacturing processes. Emily earned her PhD in physics from Dartmouth College where she studied free electron lasers.  After graduation, she joined IBM and became immersed in semiconductor technology. She held many roles at IBM from functional IC chip characterization to wafer process integration, to leading the EUV photomask development effort. She joined imec in 2014 to continue EUV development work. Emily has authored over 120 technical papers, holds ~30 patents, is an SPIE Fellow, cochairs the Scientific Advisory Board of the Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography (ARCNL) and is active in international organizations like SEMI's Semiconductor Climate Consortium and the PFAS Consortium.