Manjul Bhushan

Manjul Bhushan grew up in the small college campus town of Pilani in India. She was influenced by the logical and practical thinking of her physicist grandfather and chose to follow his footsteps by electing a career in physics. In 1974, she moved to United States and four years later completed her Ph.D. in physics from Clemson University working on superconducting tunneling. Her work experience covers areas in thin film solar cells, superconducting magnetic detectors, fabrication processes for digital superconducting circuits, semiconductor technology evaluation and product test. Throughout her professional career, her focus has been on applying the learning in physics classrooms to engineering problems in research and development and in semiconductor manufacturing.