Jonathan R. Friedman's Curriculum Vitae

Education:

City College of New York, Ph.D., 1996.  Dissertation:  Resonant Magnetization Tunneling in High-Spin Molecules.

Vassar College, B.A. in physics, 1987. 

Professional Experience:

Assistant Professor (July, 2001 – present) Department of Physics, Amherst College, Amherst, MA. 

Research Assistant Professor (Sept., 2000 – July. 2001), Department of Physics and Astronomy, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY. 

Research Scientist (Nov., 1999 – Sept., 2000), Department of Physics and Astronomy, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY. 

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Nov., 1996 – Nov., 1999), Department of Physics and Astronomy, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY. 

Research Assistant (Oct., 1991 – Nov., 1996), Department of Physics, The City College of New York, New York, NY.

Teaching Assistant (1989 – 91), Department of Physics, The City College of New York, New York, NY.

Reporter (1988 – 89), Greater Media Newspapers, Shrewsbury, NJ.  

Research Highlights:

Honors and Awards:

Winner of Agilent Technologies Europhysics Prize, 2002. 

Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2002.

Winner of Lucy Kellogg English Prize in for excellence in undergraduate physics, 1987.

Other Activities:

Program Committee for the workshop Macroscopic Quantum Coherence and Computing, Naples, Italy, June 2000.

Acoustic Guitar for 15 years.

Poetry writing.