Zachary Brawley

Zachary Brawley, Ph.D., is a research engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory, specializing in directed energy research, and serving as a principal investigator and project manager. Prior experience includes roles as a semiconductor wafer process engineer at AOI, focusing on quality assurance and equipment uptime for chip-scale semiconductor lasers, and as a graduate research assistant at Texas A&M University, where the focus was on chemical interactions with light-manipulating nanostructures. Zachary Brawley has also completed internships at Northrop Grumman, where emerging technologies were studied for space systems, and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, developing fiber optic acoustic sensors. Academic qualifications include a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Texas A&M University, alongside a strong foundation in physics and microelectronics from the University of Central Arkansas and the University of Arkansas.