Darwin Reyes's Biography

Darwin Reyes, Biomedical Engineer, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Dr. Darwin Reyes is a biomedical engineer in the Biomedical Microtechnologies Group in the Microsystems and Nanotechnology Division of the Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He received a B.S. and Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Puerto Rico, and an M.S. in Applied Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. In his doctoral work, he combined the fields of environmental analytical chemistry and toxicology. After completing his Ph.D. he was awarded with a National Science Foundation (NSF) Postdoctoral Fellowship to work with Professor Andreas Manz at Imperial College, London, U.K., where he worked for two years. During this postdoctoral experience, he worked with microfluidic devices in developing two-dimensional separation systems and analog computing using glow discharge in microfluidic chips. Dr. Reyes was later a National Research Council/NIST postdoctoral fellowship to work at NIST, USA. He is currently working in the development of microfluidic systems with electronic manipulation and measurement for cell-based assays and drug screening; electronic flow measurement sensors/methods; cell-substrate biomimetic interfaces with tunable elasticity; and thin, flexible wearable sensors.

During his time at NIST, Dr. Reyes has been part of various intramural funded projects including research funded by the Advanced Technology Program (ATP), Director's Reserve Funds, Innovations in Measurement Science Program (IMS) and more recently, the NIST on a Chip Initiative. Dr. Reyes has co-authored over 30 publications and two patents. He organized and co-chaired the 1st Workshop on Standards for Microfluidics at NIST in 2017 and is a co-founder and Chair of the Microfluidics Association (MFA).