Program Manager
Microsystems Technology Office
Thomas Schratwieser, Ph.D., joined DARPA in December 2024 as a program manager in the Microsystems Technology Office (MTO).
His research interests include power storage, solid-state lasers, optics, high-energy effects, metrology, and position, navigation, and timing (PNT).
Before joining DARPA as a program manager, Schratwieser worked as a staff scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton supporting DARPA efforts in MTO and in the Defense Sciences Office (DSO) spanning atomic and quantum physics, magnetic materials, radio frequency (RF) communications, PNT, and photonics.
His research focused on the development of small-size, high-repetition-rate femtosecond optical frequency combs for precise frequency dissemination.
Education
- Ph.D., Ultrafast Optics, Heriot-Watt University
- M.S., Photonics and Optoelectronic Devices, University of St Andrews / Heriot-Watt University
- B.S., Physics, University of St Andrews in Scotland
with Honors
Ideas under incubation
- All-weather optical Communications: Can we improve the performance of free space optical communications to overcome obscurants? What are the challenges, opportunities, and limitations to these approaches?
- Skyrmion-based magnetic memory: How can we improve current volatile and non-volatile magnetic memory? Is it possible to produce ultra-dense magnetic memory that is energy efficient and intrinsically robust to thermal- and radiation-based errors? How would this change current computer architectures?