Heck Appointed Principal Device Development Engineer at CST Global

Optoelectronic semiconductor foundry CST Global has appointed Susannah Heck as principal device development engineer.

“Susannah brings a wealth of technical experience in monolithic and hybrid optoelectronic integration; active and passive device design and verification on III-V compound semiconductors; and epitaxy, lithographic-mask and process design for wafer production,” said Andrew McKee, technical director at CST Global. “She also brings invaluable project planning, budgeting, resource allocation and management expertise with exceptional communication skills.”

Heck was previously the principal engineer at Kaiam Corp., as well as senior research and development engineer at Oclaro Inc. She has been both program manager and technical lead on projects such as next-generation, 100G, data-center, optoelectronic hardware design, development and verification. Heck began her working career as a research intern at the Tyndall National Institute before becoming a research associate in the Experimental Solid-State Physics department at Imperial College London.

She holds a bachelor’s degree and Ph.D. in physics from University College Cork, specializing in characterization of quantum dot and dash devices, material properties related to quantum dot anisotropy, threshold current and efficiency of III-V semiconductor lasers.

CST Global develops, manufactures and sells cutting-edge chips, components, modules and subsystems based on proprietary advanced semiconductor technology in microwave, millimeter wave and optical semiconductors.