PREP Research Associate

This position is part of the National Institute of Standards (NIST) Professional Research Experience (PREP) program. NIST recognizes that its research staff may wish to collaborate with researchers at academic institutions on specific projects of mutual interest, thus requires that such institutions must be the recipient of a PREP award. The PREP program requires staff from a wide range of backgrounds to work on scientific research in many areas. Employees in this position will perform technical work that underpins the scientific research of the collaboration.



Research Title:

Postdoctoral researcher



The work will entail:

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Fundamental Thermodynamics Group anticipates an open position performing metrological research to establish a new, higher-accuracy pressure scale based on pneumatic piston gauges. A piston gauge establishes a calculable pressur...