Robin Materese (Fed)

Robin Materese is the director of web content and a group leader at NIST. In this role, she oversees high-level web content as well as news, feature stories, the Taking Measure blog, "microsites" that help tell the story of NIST's work, and NIST's social media presence.

In 2024, Robin received her Level 2 Accreditation from the International Coaching Federation after completing a 6-month coaching program at NIST.

Prior to NIST, she served as the press team lead and, for six months, as the acting public affairs branch chief, for NIH's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.

Before that, she spent more than six years as the communications manager for Johns Hopkins University Montgomery County where she handled media relations, wrote and produced the campus' bimonthly newsletter, created marketing materials, coordinated special events, oversaw the management and design of the campus web site and social media presence and undertook a number of community relations projects. While at Johns Hopkins, she co-founded BioBuzz Montgomery County, a networking group for the Maryland biotech community, and served on various committees for the Tech Council of Maryland. She is a 2009 graduate of the Leadership Montgomery core program.

Robin's career also has included working in public relations and marketing at the National Academies, within corporate communications at Choice Hotels International, at a small public relations firm and at a literary agency.

For 10 years, she served as a volunteer with the Gaithersburg Book Festival, including a stint as the festival vice chair. 

• 2024: NIST Bronze Award for "The AD-X2 Controversy."
• 2024: Communicator Award of Excellence for "The AD-X2 Controversy."
• 2022: Communicator Award of Excellence for "Einstein, Time and Very Small Things" video.
• 2021: Department of Commerce Bronze Medal Award for work on the dissemination of the filtration properties of natural and synthetic cloth materials used in the production of facemasks worn by the public to slow the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, including the "Cover Smart. Do Your Part. Slow the Spread." video.
• 2020: Shorty Award, Best in Public Health category for "Cover Smart. Do Your Part. Slow the Spread." video.
• 2018: Department of Commerce Bronze Medal Award for redesign of NIST's external website
• 2018: Emmy Award for Detective X: (Re) Discovering Wilmer Souder (my role: Producer)
• 2018: 2 Communicator Awards of Excellence for the Computational Power of the Universe video (my role: Producer)
• 2018: 2 Communicator Awards of Distinction for the NIST and the Nobel microsite
• 2016: Bronze Telly Award Winner, "Running Out of Time" (my role: Producer)
• 2016: Silver Telly Award Winner, "The Digital Thread: Stitching Together the Next Industrial Revolution" (my role: Producer)
• 2014: Partnership/Collaboration award from NIH's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in recognition of demonstrating a commitment to successful teamwork and partnership as part of the Asthma Awareness Month Team
• Leadership Montgomery, Class of 2009

Emmy Award winning video

Detective X: (Re) Discovering Wilmer Souder

Other videos

Another video I "wrote" and love:

The Pioneering Life of Ethel Marden