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Monica
Olvera de la
Cruz obtained
her B.A. in Physics
from the UNAM, Mexico, in 1981, and her Ph.D. in Physics from Cambridge
University, UK, in 1985. She was a guest scientist (1985-86) in the
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD. She
joined Northwestern University in 1986, where she is the Lawyer Taylor
Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, Professor of
Chemistry, and of Chemical & Biological Engineering and the
director of the Materials Research Center. From 1995-97 she became a
Staff Scientist in the Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique,
Saclay,
France, where she also held visiting scientist positions in 1993 and in
2003. She has developed theoretical models to determine the
thermodynamics, statistics and dynamics of macromolecules in complex
environments including multicomponent solutions of heterogeneous
synthetic and biological molecules, and molecular electrolytes.
Her major awards/honors include: 2012 Elected Member of the National
Academy
of Sciences;
2010 American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellow; 2010 National Security Science and Engineering Faculty
Fellowship (DoD); 2007 Cozzarelli Prize, National Academy of Science
(NAS); 1990-95 Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science
Foundation (NSF); 1990-92 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship; 1989-94 David and
Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering. She is a Fellow
of the American Physical Society, and a
member of the NAS NRC Board on Physics and Astronomy
(2010-15) as well as the US Department of Energy's Basic Energy
Sciences Advisory Committee. She has
served in many other committees including the NAS NRC Condensed
Matter and Materials Research Committee (Chair 2010-12, Vice-Chair
2008-10, Member 2006-10) and Research at the
Intersection of Life and Physical Sciences Committee (2007-09), the NSF
Mathematical Physical Science Directorate Advisory Committee (2005-09;
DMR Chair, 2007-09) and the NSF MRSEC Executive Committee (Chair,
2008-09). She has directed various educational programs and has taught
in prestigious schools and workshops. She serves on the advisory boards
of many national research centers and is a member of the editorial
board of Macromolecules, J. Polymer Science Polymer B: Polymer Physics,
Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science, and Annual Review
of Materials Research.
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