Ankit Pokhrel is a Research and Development Engineer at imec, with a robust background in process engineering demonstrated through roles at Applied Materials, where titles included Process Engineer IV, Process Engineer III Senior, and Process Engineer III. Prior experience includes serving as a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and as a Visiting Researcher at both The University of Texas at Austin and Argonne National Laboratory. Ankit Pokhrel earned a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Physical Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2010 to 2015 and a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Chemistry from Wesleyan College from 2007 to 2010.