Living Future Ambassador Accredited
Educational Background
St. John's College - BA Philosophy 2008
University of New Mexico - PhD Engineering 2014
Masters of Architecture - University of Oregon - Class of 2025
International Living Future Institute - Living Future Ambassador - 2022
Travel Experiences
Countries: Canada, Mexico, The United States, Peru, France, Finland, Turkey, Taiwan
Traveling has opened my eyes to cultures and environments both wonderful and horrible. It has shown me the most incredible accomplishments of humans like Hagia Sophia and Machu Picchu, and it has shown me the incredible inequality and desperate conditions that no human should have to endure. Traveling has inspired me to become a builder of equality.
Further, traveling has opened my eyes to incredible cultures and natural environments that have very different ecology and spirit than the ones I'm usually surrounded by. Traveling has inspired me to become a protector of our natural environment and a fierce protector of the diversity of the earth's inhabitants and cultures.
Skills
Art - Sketching, Hand Rendering (scale)
Modeling - SketchUp, Revit, Solidworks
Rendering - VRay
Creative Software - Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Sketchup Layout
Project Management - Budget, Small team Management, Proposal Writing, Presentation, MS Office
Garment Construction
Work Experience
University of New Mexico - Research Assistant - 2009-2014
Techflow Scientific - Student Coordinator and Researcher - 2014
Los Alamos National Laboratory - Postdoctoral Researcher - 2014-2017
Los Alamos National Laboratory - Research and Development Engineer II - 2017-Present
Volunteer Work
IEEE - several roles including Local Organizing Committee for International Conferences, Women in Engineering Chair (local chapter), and Vice-chair (local chapter) 2018-2021
IEEE - several roles including Local Organizing Committee for International Conferences, Women in Engineering Chair (local chapter), and Vice-chair (local chapter) 2018-2021
Graduate Student Association 2007-2009
Creative Achievements (Science)
Patents
Resonant Klynac (combined klystron and linac in a bi-resonant structure) patent number: 10314157, filed Aug. 30, 2017, granted Jun. 4, 2019. Triad National Security, LLC. B. Carlsten and K. Nichols VIEW
Variable Focus Magnetostatic Lens patent number: 10998158, filed June 18, 2019, granted May 4, 2021. Triad National Security, LLC. J. Lewellen, K. Nichols, H. Andrews, and R. Fleming VIEW
Selected Publications
K. E. Nichols et al., “Demonstration of transport of a patterned electron beam produced by diamond pyramid cathode in an rf gun,” Applied Physics Letters, 116, 023502, Jan. 2020. VIEW
E. I. Simakov, B. E. Carlsten, F. L. Krawczyk, K. E. Nichols, W. P. Romero and M. Zuboraj, "Design, Fabrication, and Cold Testing of a Ka-Band kW-Class High-Bandwidth Dielectric-Loaded Traveling-Wave Tube," in IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, vol. 47, no. 5, pp. 2039-2044, May 2019. VIEW
B. Carlsten and K. Nichols, “Bi-resonant Klynac” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, and Assoc. Equip, vol. 877, pg. 74-79, Jan 2018. VIEW
K. Nichols, B. Carlsten and E. Schamiloglu, "Analysis of Quadrupole Focusing Lattices for Electron Beam Transport in Traveling-Wave Tubes," in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 61, no. 6, pp. 1865-1870, June 2014. VIEW
For additional publications, please visit: Kimberley Nichols on Google Scholar