Susan Hackwood
American electrical engineer
Susan Hackwood is an English-born engineer and academic administrator. She is a professor and researcher of electrical engineering at University of California, Riverside (UCR), credited for introducing the concept of electrowetting with Gerardo Beni in 1981. She was the executive director of the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) 1995-2018. She also serves as director of her university's "Science to Policy" program.
Hackwood is married to Gerardo Beni. They have two children, Catherine and Juliet.
Education
In 1976, Hackwood began studying for the bachelor of science in combined science at DeMontfort University in Leicester, UK. She finished it with honours in 1979. She received a Ph.D. in solid state ionics from De Montfort University in 1979. During the PhD, she had also worked at UC Berkeley and Chalmers Institute of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. She later worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories and completed postdoctoral research in solid-state device physics there in 1980.
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