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In September, chemistry professor Danna Freedman and Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Scholar Moriba Jah obtained MacArthur Fellowships, sometimes called “genius grants.”
JON FRIEDMAN/FEDERAL RESERVE (BERNANKE), JOHN D. AND CATHERINE T. MACARTHUR FOUNDATION (FREEDMAN, JAH)
Freedman, a former MIT postdoc who joined the school in 2021, designs molecules that may operate as quantum items, or qubits. One path she hopes to pursue together with her $800,000 grant is working with scientists from fields equivalent to neurobiology or Earth sciences on quantum sensors, through which some particles are in such a carefully balanced state that they’re affected by minuscule variations of their setting.
Jah, an affiliate professor of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics on the University of Texas at Austin, is engaged on a joint analysis program to extend assets and visibility for area sustainability. He can also be serving to to host the AeroAstro Rising Stars symposium, which highlights lecturers from backgrounds underrepresented in aerospace engineering.