Danna Freedman
Danna Freedman is an American chemist and the
Frederick George Keyes Professor of Chemistry at the Danna Freedman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1][2][3] Her
group's research focuses on applying inorganic
chemistry towards questions in physics, with an
emphasis on quantum information science, materials
with emergent properties, and magnetism. Freedman
was awarded the 2019 ACS Award in Pure Chemistry
and a MacArthur Fellowship in 2022.
Early life and education
Freedman grew up in Upstate New York.[4] As a
teenager, she led educational programmes for young
people at the Kopernik Observatory & Science
Center.[4] Freedman earned her undergraduate degree Born Danna Erit Freedman
in chemistry at Harvard University, working under the
Alma mater Harvard University (A.B.)
supervision of Hongkun Park, investigating ways to
(2003)
engineer defects into carbon nanotubes.[4] She was
University of California,
first introduced to magnetic molecules as part of a
Berkeley (Ph.D) (2009)
collaboration between Park and Jeffrey Long.[4] She
moved to University of California, Berkeley for her Awards MacArthur Fellowship
(2022)
graduate studies, joining Long's laboratory who were
investigating molecular magnetism.[4] Whilst in ACS Award in Pure
California, Freedman investigated the magnetic Chemistry (2019)
anisotropy of single-molecule magnets and polynuclear Presidential Early Career
clusters. Award for Scientists and
Engineers (2017)
Sloan Research Fellowship
Research and career (2015)
Scientific career
After graduating in 2009, Freedman moved to the Institutions Northwestern University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she Massachusetts Institute of
worked in the laboratory of Daniel G. Nocera. At MIT, Technology
Freedman studied quantum spin liquids, Kagome
Thesis Increasing Anisotropy in
lattices and spin frustration.[4] Freedman spent three
Single-Molecule Magnets
years as a postdoctoral fellow before joining the
(2009)
faculty at Northwestern University. She also serves as
deputy director of the Center for Molecular Quantum Doctoral advisor Jeffrey R. Long
Transduction, and in 2020 was promoted to full Other academic Daniel G. Nocera
professor. In 2021 she became the Frederick George advisors Hongkun Park
Keyes Professor of Chemistry at MIT.[3][5] Website [Link]
[Link]
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.[6] In this state, Freedman proposes
that long range magnetic order is lost when the antisymmetric Dzyaloshinski-Moriya exchange
interaction vanishes.[6] In 2017 Freedman created the first binary compound of iron bismuth.[7] 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.[8][9]
Awards and honors
Sloan Research Fellowship[10][11]
2017 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers[12]
2018 Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow[13]
2018 Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar[14]
2019 American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry[15]
2022 MacArthur Fellowship[16]
Selected publications
Her publications[1][2] include:
Freedman, Danna E.; Harman, W. Hill; Harris, T. David; Long, Gary J.; Chang, Christopher
J.; Long, Jeffrey R. (2010). "Slow Magnetic Relaxation in a High-Spin Iron(II) Complex".
Journal of the American Chemical Society. 132 (4): 1224–1225. doi:10.1021/ja909560d (http
s://[Link]/10.1021%2Fja909560d). ISSN 0002-7863 ([Link]
7863). PMID 20055389 ([Link]
Harman, W. Hill; Harris, T. David; Freedman, Danna E.; Fong, Henry; Chang, Alicia;
Rinehart, Jeffrey D.; Ozarowski, Andrew; Sougrati, Moulay T.; Grandjean, Fernande; Long,
Gary J.; Long, Jeffrey R. (2010). "Slow Magnetic Relaxation in a Family of Trigonal
Pyramidal Iron(II) Pyrrolide Complexes". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 132
(51): 18115–18126. doi:10.1021/ja105291x ([Link]
ISSN 0002-7863 ([Link] PMID 21141856 ([Link]
[Link]/21141856).
Freedman, Danna E.; Jenkins, David M.; Iavarone, Anthony T.; Long, Jeffrey R. (2008). "A
Redox-Switchable Single-Molecule Magnet Incorporating [Re(CN)7]3-". Journal of the
American Chemical Society. 130 (10): 2884–2885. doi:10.1021/ja077527x ([Link]
0.1021%2Fja077527x). ISSN 0002-7863 ([Link]
PMID 18271583 ([Link]
References
1. Danna Freedman ([Link] publications
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2. Danna Freedman ([Link] publications from
Europe PubMed Central
3. "School of Science appoints 11 faculty members to named professorships" ([Link]
[Link]/2021/school-science-appoints-faculty-named-professorships-1101). MIT News |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. November 2021. Retrieved 2021-11-03.
4. "About Danna | Freedman Laboratory" ([Link]
man/). [Link]. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
5. Xia, Vivian (2020-07-24). "Center for Molecular Quantum Transduction receives $12.4
million" ([Link]
ar-quantum-transduction-receives-12-4-million-in-research-funding/). The Daily
Northwestern. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
6. "Prof. Danna Freedman (Northwestern University) and team show Pressure-Induced
Collapse of Magnetic Order in Jarosite in the recent PRL 125, 077202 (2020) publication |
APS HPCAT" ([Link]
hwestern-university-and-team-show-pressure-induced). [Link]. Retrieved
2020-11-14.
7. Calendar, Stanford Event. "Chemistry Seminar: Professor Danna Freedman, Northwestern
University" ([Link] [Link]. Retrieved
2020-11-14.
8. "In new step toward quantum tech, scientists synthesize 'bright' quantum bits | Argonne
National Laboratory" ([Link]
s-synthesize-bright-quantum-bits). [Link]. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
9. "Inside Quantum Technology" ([Link] Inside Quantum
Technology. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
10. "CoC faculty, alums win Sloan Research Fellowships | College of Chemistry" ([Link]
[Link]/news/coc-faculty-alums-win-sloan-research-fellowships).
[Link]. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
11. Alfaro, Mariana (2015-02-24). "Two Weinberg professors named Sloan Fellows" ([Link]
[Link]/2015/02/23/campus/two-weinberg-professors-named-sloan-fellows/).
The Daily Northwestern. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
12. "Four faculty honored with Presidential Early Career Awards" ([Link]
u/stories/2017/01/four-faculty-honored-with-presidential-early-career-awards/).
[Link]. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
13. "2018 Kavli Fellows - News Release" ([Link]
cience/news/[Link]). [Link]. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
14. "Danna Freedman named Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar" ([Link]
2018/may/danna-freedman-named-dreyfus-teacher-scholars/). [Link].
Retrieved 2020-11-13.
15. "ACS Award in Pure Chemistry" ([Link]
ards/national/bytopic/[Link]). American Chemical Society.
Retrieved 2020-11-13.
16. "MacArthur Fellows" ([Link] Retrieved 2022-10-13.
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