Kirsten Parratt, PhD National Institute of Standards and Technology

Kirsten Parratt, PhD is a Biomedical Engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the Biosystems and Biomaterials Division. Currently, she develops flow cytometry methods to characterize live, whole cell, microbial reference materials including single strain materials and complex communities. She also utilizes computational methods to enable repeatable analyses of those materials and tests the performance of automated analyses on reference communities. This work supports biomanufacturing stakeholders, for example, those interested in Live Biotherapeutic Products and Rapid Microbial Testing Methods for advanced therapy products. Kirsten obtained her BSE in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University. She obtained her MS in Materials Science and Engineering, and PhD in Bioengineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.