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Scott Jones (Fed)
Mechanical Engineer
Dr. Scott Z. Jones is a mechanical engineer in the Infrastructure Materials Group at NIST.
Dr. Jones received his Bachelor of Science degree (2009) and a Ph.D. (2016) from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His dissertation focused on predicting the service life of reinforced concrete structures repaired with polymeric crack-filling materials.
At NIST, Dr. Jones’ research focuses on microstructure-processing-performance relationships in cement and concrete, applied to additive manufacturing techniques for concrete construction, reinforced concrete infrastructure degradation, and forensic investigations of concrete materials. He is the founding chair of ACI Committee 564, 3-D Printing with Cementitious Materials, and started NIST’s Additive Manufacturing with Cement-based project. Dr. Jones is currently the project leader of the Assessing Steel Corrosion Risk in Innovative Cement Concretes project and is the co-lead of the Material Science project of the Champlain Towers South Collapse investigation.
Student and Post-doc Opportunities with NIST
Please contact me if you are interested in this opportunity or other topics related to cement and concrete material science.
- National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship – Open to U.S. citizens to explore the frontiers of science related to NIST mission. Opportunity 50.73.11.C1072 Understanding Aging Mechanisms of Reinforced Concrete Infrastructure.
- Graduate Student Measurement Science and Engineering Fellowship (GMSE) Program – Open to graduate students (master’s and doctoral students) with U.S. citizenship. GMSE researchers work alongside NIST while working toward their degree.
- Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) – Open to U.S. citizens and U.S. permanent residents enrolled as undergraduate students at U.S. colleges or universities, providing opportunities for undergraduate researchers to work alongside NIST staff.