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Mar 24, 1951 Chicago, Illinois, United States 73 years old
American neuroscientist
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About Susan Hockfield
- Susan Hockfield (born March 24, 1951) is an American neuroscientist who from December 2004 through June 2012 served as the sixteenth president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Hockfield succeeded Charles M.
- Vest and was succeeded by L.
- Rafael Reif, who had served in her administration as Provost.
- Hockfield was the first biologist and the first woman to serve as the Institute's president.
- Hockfield, Professor of Neuroscience in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, is a director of General Electric and of Qualcomm.
- She is an overseer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and a member of the MIT Corporation.
- Before returning to MIT following her presidency, Hockfield held the Marie Curie Visiting Professorship at Harvard University's John F.
- Kennedy School of Government.
