Overview

Gender

female

Susan Hockfield is a Member of the Board Directors at QUALCOMM Incorporated since July 2012.

Susan has been President Emerita of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since July 2012 and Professor of Neuroscience at MIT since 2004. Susan was President of MIT from December 2004 to July 2012.

Susan joined the faculty of Yale University in 1985 and served as Provost from 2002 to 2004 and dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from 1998 to 2002.

Susan was a Member of the Scientific Staff of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from 1980 to 1985 and a National Institutes of Health (NIH) postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at San Francisco in 1980.

Susan has been a Member of the Board Directors of the General Electric Company since December 2006 and a Member of the Board Trustees of the Carnegie Corporation of New York since September 2006.

Susan holds honorary degrees from several U.S. and international universities and is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Susan holds a B.A. degree in Biology from the University of Rochester and a Ph.D. degree in Anatomy from the Georgetown University School of Medicine.