Danna Freedman
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Born
Danna Erit Freedman
Alma materHarvard University (A.B.) (2003)
University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D) (2009)
AwardsMacArthur Fellowship (2022)
ACS Award in Pure Chemistry (2019)
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2017)
Sloan Research Fellowship (2015)
Scientific career
InstitutionsNorthwestern University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ThesisIncreasing Anisotropy in Single-Molecule Magnets (2009)
Doctoral advisorJeffrey R. Long
Other academic advisorsDaniel G. Nocera
Hongkun Park
Websitehttps://freedmanlab-mit.com

Danna Freedman is an American chemist and the Frederick George Keyes Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1][2][3] Her group's research focuses on applying inorganic chemistry towards questions in physics, with an emphasis on quantum information science, materials with emergent properties, and magnetism. Freedman was awarded the 2019 ACS Award in Pure Chemistry and a MacArthur Fellowship in 2022.

Early life and education

Freedman grew up in Upstate New York.[4] As a teenager, she led educational programmes for young people at the Kopernik Observatory & Science Center.[4] Freedman earned her undergraduate degree in chemistry at Harvard University, working under the supervision of Hongkun Park, investigating ways to engineer defects into carbon nanotubes.[4] She was first introduced to magnetic molecules as part of a collaboration between Park and Jeffrey Long.[4] She moved to University of California, Berkeley for her graduate studies, joining Long's laboratory who were investigating molecular magnetism.[4] Whilst in California, Freedman investigated the magnetic anisotropy of single-molecule magnets and polynuclear clusters.[citation needed]

Research and career

After graduating in 2009, Freedman moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she worked in the laboratory of Daniel G. Nocera. At MIT, Freedman studied quantum spin liquids, Kagome lattices and spin frustration.[4] Freedman spent three years as a postdoctoral fellow before joining the faculty at Northwestern University. She also serves as deputy director of the Center for Molecular Quantum Transduction, and in 2020 was promoted to full professor. In 2021 she became the Frederick George Keyes Professor of Chemistry at MIT.[3][5]

She has continued to study Kagome lattices, and showed that by compressing a magnetically frustrated mineral jarosite it was possible to form a new, exotic magnetic state.[6] In this state, Freedman proposes that long range magnetic order is lost when the antisymmetric Dzyaloshinski-Moriya exchange interaction vanishes.[6] In 2017 Freedman created the first binary compound of iron bismuth.[7] Her research investigates the development of molecules whose spin states can act as quantum bits (so-called qubits), where quantum information is encoded onto magnetic (spin) states.[8][9]

Awards and honors

Selected publications

Her publications[1][2] include:

References

  1. ^ a b Danna Freedman publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b Danna Freedman publications from Europe PubMed Central
  3. ^ a b "School of Science appoints 11 faculty members to named professorships". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2021-11-03.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "About Danna | Freedman Laboratory". sites.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  5. ^ Xia, Vivian (2020-07-24). "Center for Molecular Quantum Transduction receives $12.4 million". The Daily Northwestern. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  6. ^ a b "Prof. Danna Freedman (Northwestern University) and team show Pressure-Induced Collapse of Magnetic Order in Jarosite in the recent PRL 125, 077202 (2020) publication | APS HPCAT". hpcat.aps.anl.gov. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
  7. ^ Calendar, Stanford Event. "Chemistry Seminar: Professor Danna Freedman, Northwestern University". events.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
  8. ^ "In new step toward quantum tech, scientists synthesize 'bright' quantum bits | Argonne National Laboratory". anl.gov. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  9. ^ "Inside Quantum Technology". Inside Quantum Technology. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  10. ^ "CoC faculty, alums win Sloan Research Fellowships | College of Chemistry". chemistry.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  11. ^ Alfaro, Mariana (2015-02-24). "Two Weinberg professors named Sloan Fellows". The Daily Northwestern. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  12. ^ "Four faculty honored with Presidential Early Career Awards". news.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  13. ^ "2018 Kavli Fellows - News Release". nasonline.org. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  14. ^ "Danna Freedman named Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar". news.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  15. ^ "ACS Award in Pure Chemistry". American Chemical Society. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  16. ^ "MacArthur Fellows". Retrieved 2022-10-13.
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