Friend Lab Harvard University
Growing role of chemical production in industrial energy demand
Addressing global challenges in reducing energy costs and in developing alternative energy sources is critical to the future. The research in the Friend group focuses on important catalytic reactions and on making new materials with key chemical functionality by controlling the chemical and physical properties of interfaces.
Harvard Energy Frontier Research Center for Sustainable Chemical Production is headed by Prof. Cynthia Friend, IMASC
Professor Cynthia Friend assumed the post of President of the Kavli Foundation on January 1, 2021.
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Friend lab no longer accepting new members
Please note that the Friend lab is no longer accepting new members, as Prof. Friend has assumed the role of President of the Kavli Foundation ( more information).
Professor Cynthia Friend has assumed the role of President of the Kavli Foundation
The Kavli Foundation has selected Dr. Cynthia M. Friend, Theodore Williams Richards Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University, as its next president. Dr. Friend will assume this post January 1, 2021. Cynthia Friend named incoming president of the Kavli...
Profile and inaugural article for Prof. Friend in PNAS
A profile of Prof. Cynthia Friend accompanied her inaugural article in PNAS as a member of the National Academy of Science in September. The profile follows Friend from cow-pasture golf and car repair in her early life in southern Nebraska, through her...
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New Matlab code available: The XPS Thin Film Analysis Simulator.