Craig Brown CV

Grants/programs

• NIST Direct Air Capture of CO₂, steering group
• Center for High Resolution Neutron Scattering with NSF (PIs Dan Neumann, Julie Borchers, Craig Brown) 2020-2025
  • Initiative on non-equilibrium neutron scattering : project lead
• Hydrogen Materials Advanced Research Consortium (HyMARC, Phase 1 2017-2020; Phase 2 2020-2023; a part of the DOE’s Energy Materials Network (EMN) Consortia) 
• Center for High Resolution Neutron Scattering with NSF (PIs Dan Neumann, Julie Borchers, Chuck Majkrzak, Paul Butler)2015-2020
• Dept. of Energy, Gas separations EFRC, Associate Investigator (Director: Jeff R. Long)- 2014-
  http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/co2efrc/
• Dept. of Energy, EERE Research and Development for Hydrogen Storage (PI with Jeff R. Long, Martin Head-Gordon and Anne Dailly)- 02/2012-02/2015, $600k
• PECASE award- 10/2009-10/2014, $750k
• Dept. of Energy, EERE Fuel Cell Technologies Program (with Terry Udovic)- 05/2010-1/10/2012, $600k
• Dept. of Energy, EERE Hydrogen Sorption Center of Excellence (with Dan Neumann)- 05/2005-1/10/2009, $985k
• NIST, MSEL, Directors Reserve, "The Development of a Bismuth Filter for Neutron Vibrational Spectroscopy" - 2004, $170k

Postdocs/students:

• Alexander Vincent (Prof. Tom Gennett. Col. Sch. Mines) 2024
• Morgan Kramer (Prof. Tomce Runcevski, SMU) 2023-2024
• Merissa Morey, Graduate student Indiana University (Eric Bloch); Jun-2022 ... 2024
• Naoya Yoshikane, Graduate Student Osaka Prefecture University (Kosmas Prassides); Mar-Jun 2022
• Hyun June Moon
  NIST Directors Fellow Dec 2023 -, PhD in Chemical Engineering, Georgia Tech with Christopher Jones 
• Malia Wenny
  NRC Fellow Feb. 2023- PhD from Harvard with Professor Jarad Mason

• Hayden Evans

  NRC Fellow 2019- PhD from UCSB with Professor Ram Seshadri

• Ryan Kline
  on detail from NREL for a EERE hydrogen storage project 2019- PhD from Northwestern with Professor Dana Freedman

Previous Postdocs:

• Marcus Carter
  Uni. Utah Chemistry; PhD from U. Maryland with Professor Efrain Rodriguez

• Ben Trump 2016-2022

  Intel, Portland, OR; NRC Fellow 2016- PhD from The Johns Hopkins University with Professor Tyrel McQueen

• Jacob Tarver 2015-2018
  was on detail from NREL for a EERE hydrogen storage project
• Matthew Hudson 2010-2015
  Professor Stevenson Uni. NRC Fellow 2012-2014 PhD from Syracuse University with Professor Bruce Hudson 
  First place, Sigma-Xi Postdoctoral Poster Presentation, NIST 2011.
• Zeric Hulvey 2012-2015-
  Program Manager EERE Fuel Cell Technologies Office

• Rachel Pollock 2012-
  PhD from U. Maine with Professor Brian Frederick 
  First place, Sigma-Xi Postdoctoral Poster Presentation, NIST 2014.

  Working at a Charter High School in DC

• Wendy Queen 2009-
  NRC Fellow 2010-2012 PhD from Clemson University with Professor Shiou-Jyh Hwu 
  Outstanding Graduate Researcher 2009.
  First place, Sigma-Xi Postodctoral Poster Presentation, NIST 2012.

  Professor at EPFL: https://lfim.epfl.ch/queen/

• Jae-Hyuk Her 2007-
  PhD from State University of New York at Stony Brook with Peter Stephens 
  Winner of 2009 Sigma-Xi (NIST Chapter) 'Materials' Postdoctoral Poster Prize.

  Currently with G.E. Global Research in New York.

• Yun Liu 2005-2008 
  PhD from MIT with Professor Sow-Hsin Chen
  Winner of 2008 Sigma-Xi (NIST Chapter) 'Materials' Postdoctoral Poster Prize.

  Currently in the SANS group@NIST

PhD Thesis Committees:

• Muyuan Li (2023)
• Greg Lorzing (2020)
• Daniel Sun (EPFL) 2019
• Mehrdad Asgari (EPFL) 2019
• Bahar Ipek (U. Delaware) 2016
• Trong Pham (U. Delaware) 2015

NIST Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows (SURF):

• Claire Lamberti (SMU) 2021 (Highlight)
• Anthony Campanella (U. Delaware) 2017
• Anthony Ayala (U. Maryland) 2016
• Daniella Villa (Eastern Washington University) 2016
• Matthew Cline (Bridgewater College) 2012
• Eylon Winterstein (SUNY Binghamton) 2009
• Jacob Schalch (Oberlin College) 2008 
  and for the 2008, 2009 winter terms
• Teresa Jacques (Smith College) 2005 

Editorials

Committees/Review Panels:

Professional

• Affiliated Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware
• Visiting Research Scientist, Dept. Physics, University of Maryland
• Advisory Board Member, USC Materials Consortium 2023-
• IAEA Task 40 USA hydrogen storage expert representative
• National Nanotechnology Challenge NIST representative 
• Symposium organizer "SF03: Inorganic Materials to Overcome the Challenges of Tomorrow", MRS Fall 2023
• NSF Committee of Visitors, Sept 2023.
• Chair, Advanced Photon Source, Structural Science Review Committee 2022-
• NIST Incentive Awards Panel, 2016-
• Chair, ORNL Science Review Chemical Spectroscopy Committee  2019-2022
• Advanced Photon Source, Structural Science Review Committee 2017-2021
• Chair ACA Poster Session, 2022
• NSSA Ann Mayes Award Committee, 2022
• GRC Crystal Engineering Poser judge, 2022
• Sigma-Xi Katherine Gebby Young Investigator Award panel, 2022
• Symposium "Solid-state Chemistry", MRS Fall 2021
• Chair of the Neutron Scattering Society of America Prize Selection Committee 2020
• Symposium "Anion-directed design of functional solid-state materials (#226)", Pacifichem, Hawaii 2020 (canceled due to COVID)
• Guest Editor Crystal Growth and Design
• Guest Editor Powder Diffraction Journal Thematic Issues on in-situ characterization of Metal-Organic Frameworks, 2019
• Co-editor of Chemical Physics Special Issue 2013
  "Advances and frontiers in chemical spectroscopy with neutrons"
• NSF review panels 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017
  Review and recommend proposals for funding
• Symposium "40 years of Neutron Scattering", Co-organizer, NCNR, Feb 2016
• Symposium "Synthesis, Structure and Functionalities of Ferroelectrics and Multiferroics (#432)", Pacifichem, Hawaii 2015
• IRIS/OSIRIS Instrument Review Committee: ISIS Nov. 2014
• ACNS 2014 Program Committee: Materials Chemistry and Materials for Energy
• Chair Elect Powder Diffraction, American Crystallography Assn. 2013
• EERE Hydrogen Storage FOA reviewer, 2014
• DOE-Basic Energy Science CAREER reviewer
• Guest editor, Advances and frontiers in chemical spectroscopy with neutrons, Chemical Physics (2013)
• LBNL Molecular Foundry's Proposal Review Council (PRC) 2013
• Scientific Committee, Dynamics of Molecules and Materials-II, Glasgow, Scotland 2013
• 2013 U. S. Department of Energy Hydrogen & Fuel Cells Program and Vehicle Technologies Program Annual Merit Review
• FACT Adsorption Facility Task Force advisory panel (2012-2013)
  ARPA-E
• NIST Research Advisory Committee 1998-2010 (Chair 2010)
  Advise the NIST Director on issues pertaining to the health of research at NIST
• ORNL Neutron Scattering Science Review Committee 2009-2013 (Chair 2011-2013)
  Evaluation of proposal chemistry and soft matter spectroscopy reviews and ranking of proposals for beam time at ORNL's HFIR and SNS
• 2010 U. S. Department of Energy Hydrogen & Fuel Cells Program and Vehicle Technologies Program Annual Merit Review
• Review committee for NCNR Instrument Control Software Systems (ICSS) 2008
  Evaluation NCNR requirements and implementation for new ICSS
• Conceptual Design Review panel of VISION spectrometer, SNS 2007
• SNS Second Target Station Instrumentation Workshop, SNS 2007