Program Manager
Microsystems Technology Office
David Meyer, PhD, joined DARPA in February 2025 as a program manager in the Microsystems Technology Office.
His research interests include electronic, optoelectronic, and acoustic applications of ultrawide bandgap materials and devices, parallelization of microscale and nanoscale additive manufacturing, and multifunctional distributed membrane microsystems.
Meyer previously served as the head of the Electromagnetic Technologies Branch at the Naval Research Laboratory, where he managed a host of basic and applied research projects related to emerging thin film materials and microwave & millimeter-wave analog electronics for defense applications. At Penn State, Meyer ocused on the development of silicon nitride passivation layers for gallium nitride high electron mobility transistors.
Education
- PhD, Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University