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Wyatt Vreeland graduated magna cum laude from the University of Tulsa in May of 1997. In 1997 he began his doctoral studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. During his time at Northwestern, his research focused on developing new methodologies for high-resolution electrophoretic analysis of polymeric macromolecules in capillaries and microfluidic "lab-on-a-chip" devices. These techniques were primarily geared toward DNA analysis for genetic applications. He joined NIST in 2004. His recent research has focused on using the precise and reproducible laminar flow conditions available in microfluidic systems to facilitate the self-assembly of amphiphilic molecules into liposomes and other nanoparticles.

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Jeremiah Woodcock received his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee Knoxville in the area of environmentally responsive polymers. His current work focuses on fluorescent molecular probes applied to the development of new metrologies for materials. In addition, he remains an educator by teaching chemistry online for Tennessee. In his spare time, he enjoys golf and playing with his little girls.

Tim Thompson has been an electronics engineer at NIST since 2016. His prior experience includes many years as an RF engineer for various telecommunications companies such as Motorola, Hewlett-Packard, Agilent Technologies, AT&T, and for Idaho National Laboratory.

Jennifer Rosa is a Marketing and Communications Specialist for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Jennifer has more than 15 years of business-to-business marketing and communications experience. She has helped organizations develop and refine brand positioning and messaging. Jennifer has built and led digital marketing strategies to increase awareness and market penetration for both public and private organizations. Jennifer received a Bachelor of Science in Business Management with a concentration in Marketing from North Carolina State University

Mark Tyra is an isotope geochemist working to produce nuclear forensics reference materials at NIST. He got his Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico using stable and radiogenic isotopes of minerals in meteorites to evaluate the history of water in their parent asteroids. He’s a recent father, enjoys running in the outdoors, and is recently trying out sketchnoting (he likes to draw).

Peter Mohr received a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1973. He did postdoctoral work at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Before coming to NIST in 1987 to work as a physicist, he was a J. Willard Gibbs instructor and then associate professor at Yale University and a program director at the National Science Foundation.