Paul S. Weiss (born October 10, 1959) is a leading American nanoscientist at the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California S ...

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

California NanoSystems Institute The California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) is an integrated research center operating jointly at UCLA and UC Santa Barbara. Its missions are to foster interdisciplinary collaborations for discoveries in nanosystems and nanotechnology; train the ...

. 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 The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

in 1980 and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

in 1986. He was a post-doctoral researcher at

Bell Labs Nokia Bell Labs, originally named Bell Telephone Laboratories (1925–1984), then AT&T Bell Laboratories (1984–1996) and Bell Labs Innovations (1996–2007), is an American industrial Research and development, research and scientific developm ...

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 Pennsylvania State University, 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 self-assembled monolayers as well-defined environments to isolate single molecules for measurements of electron transport, as a means to improve

nanofabrication Nanolithography (NL) is a growing field of techniques within nanotechnology dealing with the engineering (patterning e.g. etching, depositing, writing, printing etc) of nanometer-scale structures on various materials. The modern term reflects on a ...

techniques and as a way to isolate probe molecules on biospecific capture surfaces. The group has now diversified its focus to encompass projects that have wide-ranging impact in

nanoscience The nanoscopic scale (or nanoscale) usually refers to structures with a length scale applicable to nanotechnology, usually cited as 1–100 nanometers (nm). A nanometer is a billionth of a meter. The nanoscopic scale is (roughly speaking) a lo ...

and other fields, including nanobiosensor arrays for brain research and studying the

microbiome A microbiome () is the community of microorganisms that can usually be found living together in any given habitat. It was defined more precisely in 1988 by Whipps ''et al.'' as "a characteristic microbial community occupying a reasonably wel ...

. 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 '' ACS Nano.''

Personal life

He is married to and collaborates with Anne M. Andrews, a Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at th
University of California Los Angeles
Recently in a podcast wit
Citrine Informatics
Prof. Jillian Buriak 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 Fellow of the American Physical Society *2014

American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, a ...

, Elected Member *2015 American Chemical Society Award in Colloid and Surface Chemistry *2016 American Chemical Society Tolman Medal *2017

Canadian Academy of Engineering The Canadian Academy of Engineering (french: L'Académie canadienne du génie) is a national academy of distinguished professional engineers in all fields of engineering, who are elected on the basis of "their distinguished service and contribution ...

, 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
(video) {{DEFAULTSORT:Weiss, Paul S. 1959 births Living people American nanotechnologists Pennsylvania State University faculty Fellows of the American Physical Society