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Ronald L. Jones (Fed)
Leader, User Facility Partnerships
Current Roles
User facilities are an integral part of the strategic plan for NIST, providing platforms to bring together world leading measurement capabilities developed at NIST into environments with access models that support large bases of stakeholders. Within these environments, NIST scientists are able to effectively interact with stakeholders to achieve the largest impact in the shortest development time. As lead in partnership building, I look to assist NIST staff in building efficient and robust partnerships that deliver for NIST and the US economy. Three of the larger current efforts are detailed below.
Lead, NIST/BNL Partnerships
This multi-decade partnership with Brookhaven National Laboratory (Upton, NY) seeks to develop synchrotron X-ray techniques that support microelectronics, chemical, and high performance materials manufacturing. Central to this partnership, NIST and BNL support nine experimental stations at the National Synchrotron Light Source II dedicated to advancing measurement science in these strategic industries. These beamlines are co-operatively operated with BNL as testbeds to collaboratively develop X-ray technology with partner institutions such as IBM, Toyota, US AFRL, Dow Chemical, and others.
Director, nSoft Consortium
nSoft is another example of a user facility partnership entirely within the NIST community. Operating since 2012, nSoft is a public-private consortium uses industrial collaborations to advance key measurement capabilities for the US economy. Member companies gain expertise and competitive advantage to be used in product development and solving highly complex manufacturing issues. Soft materials are at the foundation of the current and future economy, spanning advanced biotherapeutics, consumer products, high strength low density materials, additive manufacturing, and microelectronics. nSoft is a collaboration between two NIST operating units, the NIST Material Measurement Laboratory and the NIST Center for Neutron Research. nSoft
Lead, Neutron Elemental Metrology Partnerships
Neutron spectroscopy, using the advanced neutron generation capabilities of the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR), has long been a key component of the NIST Standard Reference Materials (SRM) program, supporting standards for nutrition, elemental detection, and characterization of fuels. Building the next generation of partnerships will drive modernization of the SRM process as well as supporting emerging needs in Lithium metrology (batteries, microelectronics, advanced alloys, medical devices), advanced fuels, and large scale infrastructure.
Awards
- George Uriano Award for Intramural Programs (2016)
- International Center for Young Scientists Fellowship (2007)
- Department of Commerce Silver Medal for Outstanding Research (2006)
- National Research Council Fellowship (2002-2004)
- American Physical Society Padden Award Finalist (2000)
- Argonne National Laboratory Summer Research Fellowship (1996)
