Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Ph.D. (Physics)
- Physical Sciences and Wireless Research Senior Vice President, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies (until December 2004)
- Deputy Director for Science and Technology at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif.(until October 2007)
- Principal associate director for science and technology at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif.(until June 2009)
- July 2009, Dean of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences
| June 2002 | National Academy of Sciences Council and Executive Board (until June 2005) |
| 2004 | Chair, National Academies, Keck Futures Initiative, Conference on Nano-Bio Systems |
| 2004 | Member, Division of Engineering and Physical Science, National Research Council (until 2008) |
| 2006 | Member, National Research Council Committee on Prospering in the Global Economy in the 21st Century (Rising Above the Gathering Storm) |
| January 2008 | Chair, Division of Engineering and Physical Science, National Research Council (- present) |
| January 2008 | Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science Board (until February 2011) |
| January 2009 | President, American Physical Society (until December 2010) |
| November 2011 | Member, Board of Governors, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology School Corporation (-present) |
| 1989 | APS’s Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award |
| 2002 | One of the “50 Most Important Women in Science”, Discover Magazine |
| 2005 | APS’s George E. Pake Prize |
