Jay Hendricks Email & Phone Number

Gaithersburg, Md

A world-class expert in low pressure and vacuum metrology, Dr. Hendricks serves as the Deputy Program Manager for NIST on a Chip and is the former leader of the NIST Thermodynamic Metrology Group. Jay received his M.A. and Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Johns Hopkins University, and his B.S. in chemistry from Penn State University. In 1996, he started his career at NIST as a post-doctoral fellow conducting research on a novel low-temperature CVD that resulted in a US patent.Dr. Hendricks was team lead of a 5-year Innovation in Measurement Science project aimed at re-inventing the realization and dissemination of pressure, temperature, and length using optical Fabry-Perot interferometer cavities. His current research interests focus on development novel photonic and quantum-based methods for realizing traditional vacuum gauging and temperature metrology and extreme vacuum production and measurement.Dr. Hendricks has authored over 60 papers on vacuum science/ technology/ surface chemistry/ ion-beam laser spectroscopy. He is a Fellow of the AVS for exceptional contributions to vacuum science, developing new and revolutionary vacuum standards and methods, and mentorship to early career scientists. He has 2 US Department of Commerce Gold Medals for Fixed Length Optical Cavity (FLOC) and for his service in protecting US historical documents including the US bill of rights and NIST French Award for development of a new NIST calibration service.Dr. Hendricks is the Scientific Director of IUVSTA (International Union of Vacuum Science, Technique and Application) an organization representing nearly 15,000 physicists, chemists, materials scientists, engineers. He is the Chair of the IMEKO TC-16, an international technical committee for pressure and vacuum metrology. He currently has active roles in the AVS, and IVC, and EVC program planning committees, and the CCM Pressure and Vacuum working group, AVS-Mid Atlantic Chapter and ISO TC112 Vacuum Standards Committee.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physical Chemistry

Research: Studies of the nature of excess electron binding in clusters and nanoparticles: (1) Performed the synthesis and characterization.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Chemistry

Bachelor’S Degree, Chemistry

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