Thomas Ehrenreich
Program Manager
Microsystems Technology Office
Dr. Thomas Ehrenreich joined DARPA in February 2021 as a program manager in the Microsystems Technology Office (MTO). His research interests include fiber lasers and amplifiers, visible and X-ray spectroscopy, atomic lifetime measurements, ion-atomic collisions, and coherent elliptical Rydberg atoms.
Prior to joining DARPA, Ehrenreich held many roles at the Missile Defense Agency’s Sensor & Directed Energy Technology Office from 2016-2020, most recently working as the Advanced Sensor product manager.
Ehrenreich has co-authored 39 peer-reviewed publications and conference proceedings. More notably, Ehrenreich demonstrated the world’s first diode-pumped alkali laser, the first 1 kW Tm-doped fiber laser at 2 µm, and the first 3 kW beam combinable fiber amplifier.
Ehrenreich holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science, and a Master of Science degree in physics from Aarhus University in Denmark. He earned his Doctorate of Philosophy in physics at Kansas State University.