Mohsina Islam, Ph.D., Senior Technical Manager, ChemTrace Analytical Testing and Solutions, UCT

Mohsina Islam is currently working as a Senior Technical Manager at ChemTrace Analytical Testing and Solutions, a Business unit of UCT (Ultra Clean Technology) in Fremont, California.

She earned her undergraduate degree in Applied Chemistry and Chemical Technology from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Then she completed her Master’s in Chemistry in 2001, from Tuskegee University in Alabama. She went on to pursue postgraduate learning in Chemistry and was awarded a PhD from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas in 2006.

She started her career in Silicon Valley as a Senior Research Chemist in 2006 at ChemTrace which was a business division under Applied Materials. She has over 16 years of experience in project management, quality assurance and chemical analysis for semiconductor and other manufacturing industries. Her expertise is on analysis of trace metal impurities in chemicals/ inorganic solids/ wafers/ UPW/ clean room materials by ICP-MS and ICP-OES.

Outside of corporate world, Mohsina also worked in academia. She was a Lecturer in Polymer Science and chemical Technology department at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh for a year.

She likes singing, hiking and traveling to new places. She also enjoys listening to music and watching movies with her family.

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