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Douglas S. Thomas is an economist in the Applied Economics Office at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. His work focuses on manufacturing industry costs, risks and economic decision making. Thomas has a number of publications, has been cited by the Economist, received the Jack Bono award for engineering communications, and is the author/contact for NIST’s Applied Economics in Manufacturing website.
Matthew Staymates is a mechanical engineer and fluid dynamicist at NIST. His research interests focus on improving trace drug and explosives detection systems, along with developing next-generation detection technologies. Computational fluid dynamics, schlieren imaging, high-speed videography, laser light-sheet flow visualization, and other advanced flow diagnostic and visualization methods are used to optimize sampling strategies related to the collection and detection of chemical and biological threats. Matt specializes in aerodynamic / non-contact sampling of people and objects.
Heather Evans is the senior program analyst in the NIST Program Coordination Office, where she leads a variety of planning, program and policy efforts. After earning a Ph.D. in materials science from the University of California Santa Barbara, Heather spent several years in Germany as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2008, Heather came to Washington, D.C., as an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow to learn about science policy and never turned back. She’s spending the summer of 2020 staying in virtual touch with friends, trying out a variety of workout apps, and focusing on her tomato and basil plants.
Tytus Mak is a statistician in the Mass Spectrometry Data Center at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). His research focuses on developing machine learning approaches for analyzing big datasets generated by high-throughput biomolecular analysis platforms including metabolomics, glycomics and proteomics. He received his B.S. in electrical and computer engineering at Cornell University and his Ph.D. in bioinformatics and tumor biology at Georgetown University. He is also an avid martial artist and spends his free time practicing karate and kenjutsu.
Justyna Zwolak is a scientist in the Applied and Computational Mathematics Division at NIST. She received an M.Sc. in mathematics and a Ph.D. in physics from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. Justyna's current research uses machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence in quantum computing platforms.
Riley Wilson has been a NISTer for six years, developing a robust understanding of the agency’s remarkable past, varied research portfolio and far-reaching impact. She currently supports NIST as tours and exhibits coordinator, introducing the agency’s mission, research and impacts to various stakeholder groups. Previously, Riley served as NIST’s social media coordinator, crafting content for and managing the agency’s Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, LinkedIn and Reddit accounts.
