Paul S. Weiss (born October 10, 1959) is a leading
Americannanoscientist at the
University of California, Los Angeles. He holds numerous positions, including UC Presidential Chair, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry,[1] Bioengineering, and of Materials Science and Engineering,[2] and founder and editor-in-chief of ACS Nano.[3] From 2019–2014, he held the Fred Kavli Chair in NanoSystems Sciences and was the director of the
California NanoSystems Institute.[4] Weiss has co-authored over 400 research publications and holds over 40 US and international patents.[5]
The Weiss Group has traditionally focused on understanding and controlling chemistry and materials at the smallest scales. They demonstrated how atoms and molecules communicate through substrates on which they sit at greater than
chemical distances. They have exploited
self-assembled monolayers as well-defined environments to isolate single molecules for measurements of electron transport, as a means to improve
nanofabrication techniques and as a way to isolate probe
molecules on biospecific capture surfaces. The group has now diversified its focus to encompass projects that have wide-ranging impact in
nanoscience and other fields, including nanobiosensor arrays for brain research and studying the
microbiome. Weiss led the technology roadmap for the BRAIN Initiative[7][8] and with
Julie S. Biteen contributed to the roadmap for the National Microbiome Initiative,[9] both published in ACS Nano.
Recently in a podcast with
Citrine Informatics, Prof.
Jillian Buriak estimated that Prof. Paul Weiss travels 300,000 miles a year in relation to his scientific research and community involvement.[10]
Awards and honors
1995-1997 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship
1997-1998 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1996 American Chemical Society Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry
^Weiss, Paul S. (2013). "President Obama Announces the BRAIN Initiative". ACS Nano. 7 (4): 2873–2874.
doi:
10.1021/nn401796f.
PMID23607423.
^Alivisatos, A. Paul; Andrews, Anne M.; Boyden, Edward S.; Chun, Miyoung; Church, George M.; Deisseroth, Karl; Donoghue, John P.; Fraser, Scott E.; Lippincott-Schwartz, Jennifer; Looger, Loren L.; Masmanidis, Sotiris; McEuen, Paul L.; Nurmikko, Arto V.; Park, Hongkun; Peterka, Darcy S.; Reid, Clay; Roukes, Michael L.; Scherer, Axel; Schnitzer, Mark; Sejnowski, Terrence J.; Shepard, Kenneth L.; Tsao, Doris; Turrigiano, Gina; Weiss, Paul S.; Xu, Chris; Yuste, Rafael; Zhuang, Xiaowei (2013).
"Nanotools for Neuroscience and Brain Activity Mapping". ACS Nano. 7 (3): 1850–1866.
doi:
10.1021/nn4012847.
PMC3665747.
PMID23514423.
^Biteen, Julie S.; Blainey, Paul C.;
Cardon, Zoe G.; Chun, Miyoung; Church, George M.; Dorrestein, Pieter C.; Fraser, Scott E.; Gilbert, Jack A.; Jansson, Janet K.; Knight, Rob; Miller, Jeff F.; Ozcan, Aydogan; Prather, Kimberly A.; Quake, Stephen R.; Ruby, Edward G.; Silver, Pamela A.; Taha, Sharif; Van Den Engh, Ger; Weiss, Paul S.; Wong, Gerard C. L.; Wright, Aaron T.; Young, Thomas D. (2016).
"Tools for the Microbiome: Nano and Beyond". ACS Nano. 10 (1): 6–37.
doi:10.1021/acsnano.5b07826.
hdl:1912/7761.
PMID26695070.