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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Academic Record:
Knoxville College , B.S., 1968; University of Maryland , Ph.D., 1977.
Current Position: Director of the Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory (CSTL). CSTL is one of the nine technical Operational Units within the National Institute of Standards and Technology and has ~325 technical staff of and an annual Budget of approximately $85M. The NIST Mission is to promote U.S innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve quality of life. CSTL supports NIST’s Mission by addressing customer needs for measurements, standards, and data in the areas broadly encompassed by chemistry, chemical engineering and the biosciences. Areas of growth and/or increased emphasis include bioscience and health, nanometrology, assessment of climate change and renewable energy technologies. The laboratory is organized into five Divisions along disciplinary lines:
- Biochemical Science: DNA chemistry, sequencing; Protein structure, properties, and modeling; Biomaterials; Biocatalysis and bioprocessing measurements
- Process Measurements: Research, calibration services and provision of primary standards for temperature, pressure, vacuum, humidity, fluid flow, air speed, liquid density and volume, and gaseous leak-rate measurements; Sensor research
- Surface and Microanalysis Science: Nanoscale chemical characterization; Particle characterization and standards; Electronic and advanced materials characterization; Surface and interface chemistry; Advanced isotope metrology
- Physical and Chemical Properties:Basic reference data; Data for process and product design; Properties of energy-related fluids; Fundamental studies of fluids; Cryogenic technologies; Computational chemistry
- Analytical Chemistry: Chemical measurements research and services in: inorganic, organic and electroanalytical chemistry; atomic, molecular and mass spectrometry; and microanalytical technologies.
Earlier Responsibilities/Activities: Led research activities in analytical chemistry for more than 20 years. Prior to that, personal research activities were focused in the area of trace organic analytical chemistry, with special emphasis on the development of liquid chromatographic methods for the determination of individual organic species in complex mixtures (i.e., extracts of environmental, food, and clinical samples) and the development of liquid chromatographic methods for the determination of physico-chemical properties such as aqueous solubilities, octanol/water partition coefficients, and vapor pressures of organic compounds. This work is described in more than 100 peer-reviewed publications. During his 35+-year professional career, presented more than 250 invited lectures at U.S. industrial sites, Colleges/Universities and Technical Meetings throughout the world.
Other National and International Responsibilities: Dr. May has several leadership responsibilities in addition to those at NIST. Currently he is Chair, Organic Analysis Working Group, Consultative Committee on the Quantity of Material (Chemical Measurements), International Committee for Weights and Measures; Chair, Chemical Metrology Working Group, Interamerican System for Metrology; and Co-Chair of the Joint Committee on Traceability in Laboratory Medicine Working Group on Reference Materials and Reference Procedures and Chair, Executive Board for the Hollings Marine Laboratory in Charleston, SC. In the past he has served as President and Executive Board Member for the International Society for Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds; Chair, Physical Sciences Panel, Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship Evaluation Board; Chair, Chemistry Panel, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board; Chair, Chemical Metrology Subpanel, Institute for National Measurement Standards, National Research Council of Canada; and Chair, Committee on Minority Affairs, American Chemical Society.
Honors and Awards: Department of Commerce Bronze Medal Award, 1981; National Bureau of Standards (NBS) Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Award, 1982; Department of Commerce Silver Medal Award, 1985; Arthur Flemming Award for Outstanding Federal Service, 1986; NOBCChE Percy Julian Award for Outstanding Research in Organic Analytical Chemistry and Presidential Rank Award of Meritorious Federal Executive, 1992; Department of Commerce Gold Medal, 1992; American Chemical Society Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Analytical Chemistry Award, 2001; Keynote Speaker for the 2002 Winter Commencement Ceremonies, University of Maryland, College of Life Sciences; Council for Chemical Research Diversity Award, the NOBCChE Henry Hill Award for exemplary work and leadership in the field of chemistry, Science Spectrum Magazine Emerald Award, in 2005, and the 2007 Distinguished Alumnus of the Year Award from the College of Chemical and Life Sciences, University of Maryland. |
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