Oliver Slattery

Oliver Slattery has worked as a physicist at NIST since 1998. Until 2001, he worked primarily on the NIST Rotating Wheel Braille Display and Tactile Display project and was part of the team that won the 2001 R&D 100 award and DoC bronze medal for that project. He holds a bachelors and masters degree in Applied Physics from the University of Limerick in Ireland and a masters in Electrical Engineering (Photonics Speciality) from the Johns Hopkins University in Maryland.

From 2001 to 2006, he was involved in the data preservation program and the Digital Media Group, during which time he served as Chair of the DVD Compatibility Committee at the Optical Storage Technology Association and as a Chair of the Government Information Preservation Working Group.

In 2006, Mr. Slattery joined NIST's Quantum Networks Project. He is currently involved in single photon devices research and development.