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Bijal Patel (Fed)
Associate Researcher, Polymers Processing Group
Bijal Patel, Ph.D., is an Associate Researcher within NIST's Materials Science and Engineering Division (Material Measurement Laboratory). At NIST, Bijal contributes to the Polymer Processing Group's Resonant Soft X-ray Scattering Project, helping to develop new measurement and simulation tools for exploring nanoscale structure and orientation in materials relevant to microelectronics. As part of this work, Bijal contributes to NIST-supported data analysis packages such as PyHyperScattering, and the NIST RSoXS Simulation Suite .
Prior to NIST, Bijal's research career touched on additive manufacturing of optical and electronic polymers, atomic layer deposition for high-k dielectrics (microelectronics), development of nanostructured electrocatalysts for water splitting, and development of new lithium-ion battery electrode materials. Ongoing interests are in the areas of polymers, nanotechnology, metrology, energy, and microelectronics.
Awards
- NIST-National Research Council (NRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship (2022)
- ACS POLY Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Symposium Award (2020)
- List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, University of Illinois (2019, 2020)
- Teaching Excellence Award, University of Illinois Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (2019)
- A.T. Widiger Fellowship in Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois (2019)
- 1st Prize Oral Presentation, Graduate Research Symposium, University of Illinois Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (2019)
- Honorable Mention, Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation (2018)
- Parr Graduate Research Fellowship in Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois (2016)