Biography: Brandon van Leer
Product Marketing Engineer SEM / DualBeam, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Brandon Van Leer joined Thermo Fisher Scientific in late 2004 as a Senior Applications Engineer after his tenure at Hewlett Packard as a Materials Engineer in the Imaging and Printing Group. He then led the North American SEM, FIB and Small DualBeam applications team for a number of years. Currently, Brandon is acting as a business development and product marketing engineer for the Materials Science Business Unit. Brandon’s professional background has focused largely on materials characterization and development of electronic materials and polymers. He has over 15 years of experience with various analytical techniques and for over 9 years has concentrated on applications for SEM and FIB. Brandon’s current research interests are in nanoscale fabrication of 3D structures using FIB technology. Brandon received his BS in Physics (1988) and his MS in Electrical Engineering (2002) from Oregon State University. He is a member of MSA, MRS and IEEE.