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Catherine Cooksey (Fed)
Catherine Cooksey is an international expert in quality infrastructure and optical metrology. She is currently serving as the NIST Deputy Quality Manager, the U.S. Delegate to the Inter-American Metrology System (SIM) Quality System Task Force (QSTF). She also serves as a Program Manager with the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program NVLAP).
Catherine was previously a research chemist in the Sensor Science Division at NIST. She was responsible for maintaining the national scale for transmittance as well as conducting and managing transmittance calibrations. Catherine’s research activities included advancing transmittance and reflectance measurement methods and the application of those methods to various measurement challenges.
In 2022, Catherine served on the leadership team of the Digital NIST Pilot Project, a NIST-wide collaboration aimed at assessing the scope and challenges of digital transformation for NIST measurement services. 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 improving the NIST reflectance measurement services in 2018.