James Knoblich-Hirst

I develop software and plugins for software products sold by this company. I am a back-end developer.

I work as a research assistant for HZB. During this time, I am learning to coordinate with an international team of scientists and researchers, performing material characterization using a myriad of laser spectroscopy techniques, writing technical papers, and performing data analysis of experiments. This characterization is being done to research suitable solar fuel devices (PEC's).

I was tasked with developing, researching, and modeling nanotechnologies including carbon nanotubes. I was tasked with designing a connector for an existing electrode design

I create analytical models of metamaterial designs, simulate them, fabricate them, and then test them using spectroscopic analyzers as well as THz-TDS. I mainly specialize in optoelectronic materials as well as THz-related metamaterial designs. I am well-versed in using numerical computational electrodynamic algorithms such as FDTD, FEM, and MoM. I have experience using Cadence Virtuoso on Linux for VLSI and RF circuit design as well.

At CRS Engineers, I helped with online software development and archiving old schematics. I assisted in the development and the quality assurance of the company webpage as well as assisted in development of the Bluereview app for clients and developers.

Solar fuels, optical spectroscopy, solid state physics, data analysis, team management.

THz technologies, optoelectronics, computational electrodynamics, antenna design, microwave circuit design, digital image processing, and optics.

Semiconductor physics, signal processing, feedback systems, and DC motor design.