Eugenia (Jane) Romantseva is a staff engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), supporting the Cellular Engineering Group and working to provide a foundation of measurement assurance for the control and rational design of biological function. Jane leads NIST’s efforts to develop metrology for rapid, successful translation of safe, effective bioproducts based on cell-free expression systems. This effort includes the development of comprehensive characterization assays for benchmarking the performance and composition of cell-free systems and establishing best practices and documentary standards to support reproducibility and scale-up for these systems. Jane received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University and a M.S. in Material Science and Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.