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Dara Weiss (Fed)
Physical Scientist
Dr. Dara Weiss is a Physical Scientist in the Heat Transfer and Alternative Energy Systems (HTAES) Group of the Engineering Laboratory (EL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Dara joined the HTAES group in May of 2024 after completing her Ph.D. in nanoscale device fabrication at Johns Hopkins University in the Dept. of Chemistry. Her current research focuses on defect characterization of wide bandgap semiconductors using electroluminescence and hyperspectral imaging techniques as well as I-V modeling for predictive device performance.
Dr. Weiss received a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Chicago in 2018 under the guidance of Prof. Bozhi Tian, and a Ph.D. in chemistry as a National Science Foundation GRFP fellow from Johns Hopkins University in 2024 under the guidance of Prof. Thomas Kempa. Her dissertation work, titled "Synthesis and Fabrication of Single Crystal Metal-Organic Framework Field-Effect Nanosensors", outlined protocols for the integration of low-dimensional discrete single crystals into complex device architectures.
Awards
National Science Foundation - Graduate Research Fellowship (2019)
American Chemical Society Division of Inorganic Chemistry Excellence in Research (2017)