Cherie Kagan

Infobox scientist birth_date = fields = Chemistry workplaces = University of Pennsylvania education = University of Pennsylvania (BSE, BA)MIT (PhD) thesis_title = The electronic and optical properties of close packed cadmium selenide quantum dot solids thesis_url = https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/10603 thesis_year = 1996 doctoral_advisor = Moungi Bawendi spouse = Christopher B. Murray

Kagan is co-director of The Penn Center for Energy Innovation and serves on the World Economic Forum, Global Agenda Council on Nanotechnology; on the U.S. Department of Energy, 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 Materials Research Society’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)