Paul S. Weiss (born October 10, 1959) is a leading

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nanoscientist at the University of California, Los Angeles. He holds numerous positions, including UC Presidential Chair, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Bioengineering, and of Materials Science and Engineering, and founder and editor-in-chief of ''

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.'' From 2019–2014, he held the Fred Kavli Chair in NanoSystems Sciences and was the director of the

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. Weiss has co-authored over 400 research publications and holds over 40 US and international patents. Weiss received his bachelor of science and master of science degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980 and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1986. He was a post-doctoral researcher at Bell Labs from 1986 to 1988 and a visiting scientist at IBM Research at Almaden from 1988 to 1989. From 1989 until 2009, Weiss was a professor at

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, rising from Assistant Professor to Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Physics. He moved to UCLA in 2009. The Weiss Group has traditionally focused on understanding and controlling chemistry and materials at the smallest scales. They demonstrated how atoms and molecules communicate through substrates on which they sit at greater than chemical distances. They have exploited

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as well-defined environments to isolate single molecules for measurements of electron transport, as a means to improve nanofabrication techniques and as a way to isolate probe

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on biospecific capture surfaces. The group has now diversified its focus to encompass projects that have wide-ranging impact in nanoscience and other fields, including nanobiosensor arrays for brain research and studying the microbiome. Weiss led the technology roadmap for the BRAIN Initiative and with Julie S. Biteen contributed to the roadmap for the National Microbiome Initiative, both published in ''

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Personal life

He is married to and collaborates with Anne M. Andrews, a Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at th
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estimated that Prof. Paul Weiss travels 300,000 miles a year in relation to his scientific research and community involvement.

Awards and honors

*1995-1997 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship *1997-1998 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship *1996 American Chemical Society Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry *2002

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*2014 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Elected Member *2015 American Chemical Society Award in Colloid and Surface Chemistry *2016 American Chemical Society

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*2017 Canadian Academy of Engineering, Elected Inaugural Foreign Fellow *2018 American Chemical Society Patterson-Crane Award for Contributions to Chemical Information *2019 IEEE Pioneer Award in Nanotechnology

References

External links

Weiss' biography page
at Pennsylvania State University
Weiss Research Group websiteWeiss explaining research done by the Weiss Group
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