Wendy Shaw PhD

Wendy J. Shaw is the Chief Science and Technology Officer in the Physical and Computational Science Directorate at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Her research focuses on learning from and mimicking nature at the intersection of chemistry and materials. Her projects are in two broad areas: developing a fundamental understanding of the role of proteins in biomineralization processes and designing catalysts for renewable energy that mimic features of enzymes. Her funding comes through the NIH and DOE, including a DOE Early Career award. Dr. Shaw has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers and has an h-index of 41. She is a Kavli Fellow and serves on review panels for NIH and DOE. She also serves on the editorial board of Biophysical Journal and has been an invited panelist for NIH, DOE, and the NRC. She received a BS in chemistry from Whitman College and a PhD in chemistry from the University of Washington.