Gregory Cooksey's Biography

Gregory Cooksey, Project Leader, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Dr. Cooksey is a Project Leader in the Microsystems and Nanotechnology Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). His lab develops microfluidic platforms with integrated optical structures to measure fluids, particles, and cells with high precision. His team’s optofluidic flow meter is the most accurate flow metrology platform in the world, and it has a response time on the order of 0.1 s at 1 nL/min. Dr. Cooksey also leads a microfluidic cytometry project that uses multiple interrogation regions to extract first ever per-object uncertainty quantification and measurement of dynamics in flow. This technology was awarded a Gold Medal and the 2023 Ron Brown Excellence in Innovation Award by the U.S. Department of Commerce.