Bettye L. (Smith) Maddux received her Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin studying the effects of the potent carcinogen, benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide on nucleosomal DNA at single nucleotide resolution. She joined the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI) as assistant director of the Safer Nanomaterials and Nanomanufacturing Initiative (SNNI) in February 2006. Previously, she served as an associate specialist and biophysicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara with joint appointments in the Materials Research Laboratory, the Department of Physics, and the Marine Biotechnology Institute. Her major research interests included studying the mechanisms controlling the biosynthesis and self assembly of biocomposite materials and analyzing the nanoscale properties of strong and tough biopolymers.
Dr. Maddux has been actively engaged in public policy and promoting SNNI’s proactive design strategies. She currently serves on the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) US Technical Advisory Group to the to the International Organization on Standardization’s (ISO) Technical Committee on Nanotechnologies 229. She actively participates in workshops on Standards for Environmental Health and Safety Research needs for engineered nanoscale materials with the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI). She is a reviewer for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s EMSL Peer Review Proposal Committee and an ad hoc reviewer for the American Chemical Society. She also serves on the program committee for the annual MicroNano Breakthrough Conference and is conference organizer for SNNI’s annual Greener Nano Conference. She has published peer-reviewed research articles, a book chapter, policy-related reports and invited articles as 'Bettye L. Smith’ and more recently as ‘Bettye L.S. Maddux’ in the fields of nanotechnology, biophysics, biochemistry, materials science, biochemistry and chemical carcinogenesis.
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