Cherie R. Kagan (b. 1969,

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) is the Stephen J. Angello Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Professor of Chemistry at the

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. Kagan is an Associate Editor of ''

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'' and serves on the editorial boards of ''

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'' and '' NanoToday''.

Education and career

Kagan graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991 with a BSE in Materials Science and Engineering and a BA Mathematics. She earned her PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the

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in 1996 working with

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. In 1996, she went to

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as a postdoctoral fellow. In 1998, Kagan joined IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center, where she most recently managed the “Molecular Assemblies and Devices Group.” In 2006, it was announced that she would join the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. Kagan is co-director of The Penn Center for Energy Innovation and serves on the

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, Global Agenda Council on Nanotechnology; on the

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, Basic Energy Sciences Materials Council; and on the advisory board of the US Summer Schools in Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. She served on the

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’s Board of Directors from 2007-2009 and the editorial board of the ''ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces'' from 2008-2011.

Awards and honors

* MIT Technology Review TR10 (2000) * ACS Top 12 Young Women at the Forefront of Chemistry (2002) * IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (2005) *

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’s Distinguished Women in Science Colloquium (2009) * Fellow of the

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(2013) * S. Reid Warren, Jr Award (2015) * 2021 Fellow of the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kagan, Cherie American nanotechnologists 1969 births People from Manhasset, New York University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni University of Pennsylvania staff Living people MIT School of Engineering alumni Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors Fellows of the American Physical Society