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Noah Last (Fed)
Scientific Partnerships Manager
Noah Last is the Scientific Partnerships Manager in NIST’s Circular Economy Program, where he coordinates NIST metrology expertise to help U.S. industries be competitive in a circular economy. Specific activities include:
- managing the release of the NIST Circular Economy Resource Registry for circular economy standards,
- conducting research in circular product design and the LCA-circularity nexus,
- technical point of contact for the NIST Training for Improving Plastics Circularity (TIPC) Grant Program, and
- supporting the development of industry-led standards that help businesses transition into a circular economy.
He is an active member of ASTM's manufacturing (E60.13), plastics (D20), and textiles (D13) committees and chairs the ISO circular economy committee (TC 323).
Awards
- ASTM International Award of Recognition (2023) for his role in the workshop and technical report "Fostering a Circular Economy for Manufacturing Materials"
- Engineering Laboratory Distinguished Associate (2023) for his contribution planning, facilitating, and producing the final report for the NIST/ASTM workshop Fostering a Circular Economy for Manufacturing Materials.
- Engineering Laboratory Distinguished Associate (2022) in recognition of contributions to improved collaborative processes, preservation of institutional knowledge, and superb communication of research work.
