MSED - Key Persons
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- Materials Research Engineer
Alan K. Thompson joined NIST in 1991 at the start of the Polarized 3 He Neutron Spin Filter Project. His research interests expanded to include neutron fundamental physics experiments (including the "emiT" experiment, the Magnetically Trapped Neutron Lifetime Experiment, and the radiative neutron decay experiment), Neutron Device Calibrations, neutron spectroscopy, and testing semiconductors for neutron-induced soft fails.
In recent years Dr. Thompson has continued to calibrate neutron detectors within NIST calibration services, but expanded his device testing to assist the Department of Homeland Security in its Neutron Detector Replacement Program.
As part of the world-wide effort to find an alternative to 3 He in neutron detectors, Dr. Thompson is currently involved in the effort to develop a neutron detector based on noble gas scintillation after a thermal-neutron induced nuclear reaction; this research has resulted in two patents. He is also working on a project to develop alternative standard neutron radiation fields, based on neutron generators, for instrument calibrations.
Dr. Thompson contributes his time and energy to the broader NIST community by chairing the Ionizing Radiation Safety Committee. He became Deputy Division Chief for the Radiation Physics Division in October of 2018, and Division Chief in December of 2023.
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- Group Leader
- Leader of Functional Nanostructured Materials Group
Albert Davydov is a leader of Functional Nanostructured Materials Group. The group of 12 staff scientists and 7 guest researchers develops measurement methods, models, data, standards, and science for the electrical, chemical, and magnetic properties of nanostructured inorganic materials, including metals and semiconductors, as related to their microstructure and processing. Three active projects in the group are focusing on materials and processes for advanced electronics, magnetics, energy and catalysis: 1) Electrochemical Processes (POC: Tom Moffat), 2) Metrology of Magnetic Materials (POC: Cindi Dennis), and 3) Low-dimensional Materials and Magnetic Thin Films for Advanced Microelectronics (POC: Albert Davydov).
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- Deputy Division Chief of the Quantum Measurement Division
Dr. Rigosi is the Deputy Division Chief of the Quantum Measurement Division (684) within the Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML) at NIST. His research interests include two-dimensional systems and applications of those systems' behaviors for electrical metrology, and he continues to pursue research endeavors as a Physicist working with the Fundamental Electrical Measurements Group (684.05). He serves on the Advisory Committee for the Industrial Leadership in Physics Ph.D. Program at Georgetown University, and is also a member of the American Physical Society and the Mellon-Mays Initiative of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Alex Guttenplan is a NIST-NRC Postdoctoral Researcher in the Biophysical and Biomedical Measurement Group. He obtained his PhD from the Nanoscience and Technology Doctoral Training Centre (nanoDTC) at the University of Cambridge, where he developed protein-based nanomaterials and used microfluidics to manufacture and characterize them.
After a short period in the microfluidics industry, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine in Maastricht, the Netherlands, where he worked on the design and fabrication of microfluidic devices to investigate cell-material interactions, particularly those related to bone growth and remodeling.
At NIST, Alex's research with Darwin Reyes-Hernandez focuses on the development of instrumented microfluidic tissue-on-chip platforms using the BioMEMS project's unique competencies in flexible electrode fabrication to rapidly assemble and automatically monitor biomimetic model barrier tissues.
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- Mechanical Engineer / Mechanical Performance Group
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- Executive Assistant
- Secretary
- Division Secretary
- OU Secretary
Amy Grafmuller is the Executive Assistant to the Director and Deputy Director. Prior to joining the CNST, she worked as the Division Secretary for the Analytical Chemistry Division of the Material Measurement Laboratory. Before coming to NIST in 1997, Amy worked as a secretary at the Defense Logistics Agency in the Department of Defense
Job Titles:
- Chief of the NIST Quantum Physics Division
- Chief of the Quantum Physics Division
- Division Chief
Dr. Andrew Wilson is the Chief of the NIST Quantum Physics Division and the lead for the quantum information science program at NIST. He is based at JILA, the joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. Wilson is also the NIST Program Official for the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C), working to enable and grow the US quantum industry. He represents NIST on the QED-C Steering Committee. Dr. Wilson is engaged in interagency activities that provide US government support for quantum information science and technology with transformative potential.
Previously, Dr. Wilson was a NIST staff Physicist and project leader in the Ion Storage Group of the NIST Time & Frequency Division. He performed quantum-information experiments on high-fidelity coherent control of atomic ions to explore applications of quantum entanglement including quantum logic and computing, quantum simulation, and quantum-enhanced precision measurement. A major emphasis of the group's research is the development of techniques and tools that will be needed for large-scale, fault-tolerant, quantum-information processors. Before working with trapped ions at NIST, Dr. Wilson's research focused on Bose-Einstein condensates, quantum degenerate Fermi gases, and precision laser spectroscopy of neutral atoms and molecules.
Dr. Wilson completed his PhD in AMO Physics at the University of Otago (NZ) in 1993, he was a postdoc in the Clarendon Laboratory at the University of Oxford (UK), and then a faculty member in the Physics Department at the University of Otago. He joined NIST in 2010.
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- Chief of Staff
- Group Leader ( Acting )
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- Division Chief
- Division Safety Representative
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- Deputy Division Chief
- Division Safety Representative
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- Deputy Division Chief
- Deputy OU Director
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- Associate OU Director for Measurement Services
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- Division Chief ( Acting )
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- Division Chief
- OU Director
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- Senior Management Advisor
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- Administrative Assistant
- Division Office Manager
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- Division Secretary ( Acting )
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- Division Safety Representative
- Organization Unit Safety Coordinator
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- Rabinow Applied Research Award, 2022
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- Division Safety Representative
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- Group Secretary ( Acting )
Job Titles:
- Division Safety Representative
Job Titles:
- Group Secretary ( Acting )
Job Titles:
- Division Safety Representative
Job Titles:
- Division Safety Representative