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KC Morris, leader of the Information Modeling and Testing Group in the Systems Integration Division of NIST's Engineering Lab, led the efforts to develop this initial set of standards, directing, focusing, and coordinating amongst the research teams. Her research interests are in smart and sustainable manufacturing, and techniques for design, testing and evaluation of systems and standards. She currently serves on the executive board of ASTM E60 on sustainability and is co-chair of E60.13 on sustainable manufacturing.  

Catherine Cooksey is a research chemist in the Sensor Science Division at NIST. She is responsible for maintaining the national scale for transmittance as well as conducting and managing transmittance calibrations. In 2018, she received a NIST Bronze Medal Award for establishing an accurate database of human skin reflectance measurements for wavelengths ranging from the shortwave infrared to the ultraviolet spectral region and a Judson C. French Award for vastly improving the NIST reflectance measurement services.  Additionally, Catherine serves as division quality manager. She has a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Washington in Seattle.

Darwin is a biomedical engineer. His research focuses on the development of measurement and manipulation tools for cell-based assays. Darwin holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Puerto Rico and an M.S. in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University. Darwin is also a musician and played with a rock band, when he was in high school, that performed at the Madison Square Garden in New York City. He still plays at home for his wife and two children!

Victoria Yan Pillitteri is a supervisory computer scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. She leads the Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) Team that develops the suite of risk management guidance used for managing information security risk in the federal government. Outside of work, she enjoys teaching group exercise classes, baking, and traveling.

Hannah Hidle is a graduate student at Georgetown University, finishing an M.S. in environmental metrology and policy. She is currently conducting research on non-targeted analysis of per- and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS) at NIST. In her free time, she loves going on runs and exploring forest trails with her beloved dog, Loki.

Catherine (Katie) Zander is a scientific program manager at the Standards Coordinating Body (SCB). Her past experience includes researching a rare blood clotting disease and founding a patient education program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, working in the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce as an American Society of Hematology & American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science & Technology Policy Fellow, and co-chairing the National Postdoctoral Association’s Advocacy Committee. Katie holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from Binghamton University, where she studied the kinetics and molecular mechanisms of neurotransmitters. She is also an avid collector of books, vintage records, and various fretted instruments; it borders on problematic.

Ashley Boggs earned her Ph.D. in interdisciplinary ecology at the University of Florida with a concentration on endocrine disruption of the American alligator at the NASA Kennedy Space Center. Her expertise support endocrine research and clinical diagnostics through development of reference materials and multi-analyte measurement methods for steroid, thyroid and protein hormones using mass spectrometry. She has been a research biologist at NIST since 2012 and during that time helped to develop the metrology program related to clinical, environmental and aquacultural endocrine measurements.