Jennifer S. Martinez

This article is about the American nanotechnologist. For the American legal scholar and academic administrator, see Jenny Martinez.

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]

References

  1. ^ a b Clark, Carol A. (November 7, 2016), "Five Los Alamos Scientists Receive 2016 Fellows Prize", Los Alamos Daily Post, retrieved 2025-12-30
  2. ^ a b c "CEMS Seminar Series - Dr. Jennifer Martinez", Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering, November 16, 2021, retrieved 2025-12-30
  3. ^ a b "Jennifer Martinez", ORCiD, retrieved 2025-12-30
  4. ^ Energy Department Scientists and Engineers Honored with Presidential Early Career Awards, US Department of Energy Office of Science, December 19, 2008, retrieved 2025-12-30
  5. ^ AAAS Members Elected as Fellows, American Association for the Advancement of Science, November 30, 2012, retrieved 2025-12-30
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