Catherine Cooksey is an American chemist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the Sensor Science Division of the Physical Measurement Laboratory. She is responsible for realizing and maintaining NIST's national scale for spectral transmittance at ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared wavelengths. Cooksey is a leading expert in spectrophotometry and low uncertainty methods of measuring spectral reflectance and transmittance.
Catherine Cooksey | |
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| Institutions | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| Thesis | Femtosecond pump-probe studies of chlorine dioxide, dichlorine monoxide, and nitrosyl chloride in solution (2006) |
| Doctoral advisor | Phil Reid |
Education
editCooksey earned her B.S. degree in chemistry at University of Kansas, Lawrence. In 2006, she completed a Ph.D. in chemistry at University of Washington, Seattle.[1] Her dissertation was titled Femtosecond pump-probe studies of chlorine dioxide, dichlorine monoxide, and nitrosyl chloride in solution.[1]
Career
editCooksey joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology in 2007.[2] Cooksey is best known for her research on the spectral reflectance of human skin,[3][4] which has been featured in numerous news outlets.[5][6][7][8] The work earned her a NIST Bronze Medal Award in 2018.[9]
Awards
editCooksey is the recipient of several awards including the NIST Bronze Medal Award (2018)[9] for her work in creating a database of human skin reflectance values and the Judson C. French Award (2018)[10] for her contributions to the development of the United States national reference instrument for reflectance: Robotic Optical Scattering Instrument (ROSI).[11]
References
edit- ^ a b "ChemLetter Autumn 2007" (PDF). University of Washington Department of Chemistry. Retrieved 2021-04-10.
- ^ "Catherine Cooksey(Fed)". NIST. 2019-06-04. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
- ^ Cooksey, Catherine C.; Allen, David W. (2013-05-23). Reflectance measurements of human skin from the ultraviolet to the shortwave infrared (250 nm to 2500 nm). SPIE Active and Passive Signatures IV. Vol. 8734. SPIE. pp. 87340N. doi:10.1117/12.2015821. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
- ^ Cooksey, Catherine C.; Tsai, Benjamin K.; Allen, David W. (2014-06-04). A collection and statistical analysis of skin reflectance signatures for inherent variability over the 250 nm to 2500 nm spectral range. SPIE Active and Passive Signatures V. Vol. 9082. SPIE. p. 908206. doi:10.1117/12.2053604. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
- ^ "Seeing Your True Colors: Standards for Hyperspectral Imaging". Los Alamos Daily Post. 2014-07-07. Retrieved 2021-04-10.
- ^ "Standards Sought for Hyperspectral Imaging". Photonics Media. Retrieved 2021-04-10.
- ^ "Seeing your true colors: Standards for hyperspectral imaging". Science Daily. 2014-07-01. Retrieved 2021-04-10.
- ^ "How Skin Looks Under Invisible Light". ABC News. 2014-07-06. Retrieved 2021-04-10.
- ^ a b "2018 NIST Bronze Medal Award". NIST. 14 November 2019. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
- ^ "Judson C. French Award". NIST. 14 November 2019. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
- ^ "Robotic Optical Scattering Instrument (ROSI)". NIST. 2014-07-06. Retrieved 2021-04-10.
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