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Andrea Centrone (Fed)
Andrea Centrone is a Project Leader in the Nanoscale Spectroscopy Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD. He received a Laurea degree and a Ph. D. in Materials Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy, working on nanoporous materials for hydrogen storage applications. Andrea performed postdoctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), first as a Rocca Fellow in the Department of Material Science and Engineering, studying the phase separation of molecules self-assembled on metal nanoparticles. He continued his postdoctoral work in the Department of Chemical Engineering, investigating the use of metal-organic frameworks for small molecule separation and gold nanorods for in vivo cancer detection and treatment. Andrea joined NIST in 2010, where he is advancing new measurement methods (such as PTIR, AFM-IR, O-PTIR, STIRM, SThM, SJEM, STM-EL, STM-PL) that combine spectroscopy with scanning probe or optical microscopy to provide compositional, optical and thermal properties maps of materials and devices with nano- and atom- scale resolutions.
Andrea is a fellow of the Washington Academy of Sciences (WAS). In 2019, he received the NIST Bronze Medal Award for “his pioneering multi-modal imaging tool that provides nanoscale properties beyond the diffraction limit for biological and electronic applications” and again, in 2023, “for developing nanophotonic atomic force microscope transducers that provide high bandwidth and sensitivity needed for nanostructure metrology.” Andrea is the recipient of the Royal Microscopical Society 2022 Scientific Achievement Award “for outstanding scientific achievements in microscopy” and of the WAS 2023 Excellence in Research Award in Physical Science “for extraordinary contributions in advancing scanned probe infrared spectroscopy methods measuring multiple materials properties with nanoscale resolution furthering the development and understanding of advanced materials.”
In collaboration with many groups, Andrea leads multiple projects aimed at answering outstanding questions in materials science, energy, biology, nano/microelectronics, and even art conservation. Andrea has authored or co-authored more than 60 peer-reviewed publications (h-index 41) and has given more than 55 invited presentations.
Selected Programs/Projects
Awards
2019 and 2023 NIST Bronze Medal Awards
Royal Microscopical Society 2022 Scientific Achievement Award
Washington Academy of Sciences 2023 Excellence in Research Award in Physical Science