Cynthia Friend currently serves as president and chief operating officer of The Kavli Foundation.
17 Facts About Cynthia Friend
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Cynthia Friend is on leave from the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University.
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Cynthia Friend has held the Theodore William Richards Chiar in Chemistry and served as professor of materials science in the Paulson School of Engineering.
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Cynthia Friend graduated from the public Hastings High School in Nebraska in 1973.
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Cynthia Friend received a Bachelor of Science with a major in chemistry from the University of California, Davis in 1977 and a Doctor of Philosophy in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981.
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Cynthia Friend pursued postdoctoral research for one year the Madix Group at the Department of Chemical Engineering of Stanford University.
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Cynthia Friend began her independent research career as an assistant professor of chemistry at Harvard University in 1982.
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Cynthia Friend moved through the ranks to become the first female full professor of chemistry in 1989.
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Cynthia 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.
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Cynthia Friend has served in many leadership roles at Harvard, including as the first and only department chair in chemistry, as associate dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and as director of the Rowland Institute.
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Cynthia Friend served as associate director of the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, at Stanford University while on a leave from Harvard.
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Cynthia Friend is currently the chair of a federal advisory committee, Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee, on which she has served since 2018.
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Cynthia Friend was previously a senior editor of Accounts of Chemical Research, a journal of the American Chemical Society.
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Cynthia Friend 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.
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Cynthia Friend's research has focused on nano-science applied to sustainability.
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Besides her scholarly work, Cynthia Friend is a member of the board of directors of Bruker Instruments.
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Dr Cynthia Friend took a leave Harvard and assumed this post on January 1,2021.