Danna Freedman

Freedman grew up in Upstate New York. As a teenager, she led educational programmes for young people at the Kopernik Observatory & Science Center. 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. She was first introduced to magnetic molecules as part of a collaboration between Park and Jeffrey Long. She moved to University of California, Berkeley for her graduate studies, joining Long's laboratory who were investigating molecular magnetism. Whilst in California, Freedman investigated the magnetic anisotropy of single-molecule magnets and polynuclear clusters. == 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. 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. In this state, Freedman proposes that long range magnetic order is lost when the antisymmetric Dzyaloshinski-Moriya exchange interaction vanishes. 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. Awards and honors • Sloan Research Fellowship • 2017 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers • 2018 Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow • 2018 Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar • 2019 American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry • 2022 MacArthur Fellowship Selected publications Her publications include: • • • == References ==