Jennifer S. Martinez
American nanoscientist
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Jennifer Suzanne Martinez is an American nanoscientist known for her research on fluorescent silver nanoclusters and their applications as biosensors.[1] Other topics in her research include nanoscale superlattices, and the genetic engineering of biomolecules that interact with metals.[2] She works at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where she is deputy director of the Materials Physics and Applications Division.[3]
Education and career
Martinez was a chemistry major at the University of Utah. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Barbara under the supervision of Alison Butler.[2]
She joined the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2002, initially as a Director's Postdoctoral Fellow, and remained there until 2018, when she took a position at Northern Arizona University as a professor in the Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science and founding director of the Center for Materials Interfaces in Research and Applications (¡MIRA!).[2] In 2022 she returned to the Los Alamos National Laboratory as deputy director of the Materials Physics and Applications Division.[3]
Recognition
Martinez was a 2007 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.[4] She was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012.[5] In 2016 the Los Alamos National Laboratory gave her their Fellows Prize.[1]