Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
E-mail: marcy_stutzman @ avs.org

MARCY STUTZMAN is a Staff Scientist in the Center for Injectors and Sources at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Virginia. She received her B.S. in physics from Penn State University and her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Virginia, where she studied electron transport mechanisms in semiconductors.

In 2001, Dr. Stutzman joined the Jefferson Lab Polarized Electron Source group, characterizing the high polarization photocathodes used to produce electron beams with 90% polarization for the nuclear physics program at the CEBAF accelerator. Successful operation of the electron source requires vacuum approaching 1x10-12 Torr; consequently, she has led research projects to quantify improvements to the electron gun vacuum system and adjacent beamline. She has also studied coatings and treatments to reduce outgassing and worked to characterize gauges in chambers approaching 1x10-12 Torr, and developed boron nitride nanotubes as a cryosorption material, for which she was granted a patent.
Recent research efforts have involved collaborations with semiconductor research groups at UCSB and Old Dominion University to improve growth of the high polarization photocathodes required for the nuclear physics program.

Dr. Stutzman has been a member of the AVS Vacuum Technology Division Committee since 2007, serving as VTD Chair (2011), Program Chair (2012 and 2013), Treasurer (2014-2019), and Secretary (2020-present). She was the History Committee Chair from 2016-2019 and has been active on the AVS Mid-Atlantic Chapter committee since 2002. Dr. Stutzman was named an AVS Fellow of the Society in 2020.