Cynthia Friend Explained

Cynthia Friend
Birth Place:Hastings, Nebraska[1]
Fields:Heterogeneous catalysis, Surface chemistry
Workplaces:Kavli Foundation
Alma Mater:Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Davis
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Doctoral Advisor:Earl Muetterties
Website:https://kavlifoundation.org/people/cynthia-friend

Cynthia Friend is president and chief operating officer of The Kavli Foundation. She is on leave from the department of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard University. Friend was the first female full professor of chemistry at Harvard, attaining the position in 1989.[2] Friend has held the Theodore William Richards Chiar in Chemistry and served as professor of materials science in the Paulson School of Engineering.[3]

Education

Friend enrolled at University of California, Davis, after having graduated from Hastings High School in 1973. She earned her B.S. degree in chemistry in 1977. At the University of California, Berkeley, Friend studied physical chemistry under the direction of Prof. Earl Muetterties. She completed her Ph.D. in 1981 and subsequently was a postdoctoral researcher for one year at Stanford University in the department of chemical engineering in the Madix Group.

Career

Cynthia Friend began her independent research career as an assistant professor of chemistry at Harvard University in 1982. She moved through the ranks to become the first female full professor of chemistry in 1989. Friend was appointed as the Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry in 1998 and as professor of materials science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard in 2002. Friend has served in many leadership roles at Harvard, including as the first and only department chair in chemistry (2004–2007), as associate dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) (2002–2005), and as director of the Rowland Institute (2013–2019).

Friend also served as associate director of the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, at Stanford University (2011–2012) while on a leave from Harvard.[4] She is currently the chair of a federal advisory committee, Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (BESAC), on which she has served since 2018.

Friend was previously a senior editor of Accounts of Chemical Research, a journal of the American Chemical Society. She was also a member of the editorial board of ACS Catalysis, Chemical Science, and the Journal of the American Chemical Society and was co-editor-in-chief of the Catalysis Science & Technology journal from 2010 until 2013.[5]

She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the American Association of Arts and Sciences and the American Chemical Society. Her research has focused on nano-science applied to sustainability. Friend and her group have investigated the chemical and physical properties of interfaces, by investigating important catalytic reactions and by making new materials with key chemical functionality.[6]

Besides her scholarly work, Friend is a member of the board of directors of Bruker Instruments (BRKR).https://www.bruker.com/en.html

Kavli Foundation

The Kavli Foundation selected Dr. Cynthia M. Friend, Theodore Williams Richards Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University, as its president. Dr. Friend took a leave Harvard and assumed this post on January 1, 2021.[7]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Cynthia Marie Friend. 16 September 2019.
  2. Book: Cynthia Friend . . May 1, 2019.
  3. Web site: Home Page Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences . 2022-07-08 . www.seas.harvard.edu.
  4. Web site: Chui . Glennda . February 21, 2012 . Tom Devereaux Appointed Director of SIMES . May 1, 2019 . SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
  5. Web site: Humphrey . Jamie . December 23, 2010 . Announcing Cynthia Friend as co-Editor-in-Chief of Catalysis Science & Technology . May 2, 2019 . Catalysis Science & Technology Blog.
  6. Web site: Cynthia Friend . May 2, 2019 . Harvard University Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.
  7. Web site: Cynthia Friend Joins Kavli . . Nov 20, 2020.
  8. Web site: Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award Recipients . . May 1, 2019.
  9. Web site: Francis P. Garvan-John M. Olin Medal. American Chemical Society. en. 2020-03-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20190329150146/https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/funding-and-awards/awards/national/bytopic/francis-p-garvan-john-m-olin-medal.html. 2019-03-29. dead.
  10. Web site: Das Institut. 2019-09-18. www.h-w-k.de. de-DE. 2020-03-17.
  11. Web site: George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry. American Chemical Society. en. 2020-03-17.
  12. Web site: 2017 National Award Recipients. American Chemical Society. 26 August 2016. 2017 National Award Recipients.
  13. Web site: 2019 NAS Election . . 30 April 2019.