Qualcomm Incorporated appoints Susan Hockfield to its board of directors
Qualcomm Incorporated has appointed Susan Hockfield to its board of directors. Dr. Hockfield’s career spans more than 30 years in biomedical science research, and she served as president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) until July 2012, where she also holds a faculty appointment as professor of neuroscience.
Following her university studies, Dr. Hockfield was a National Institutes of Health (NIH) postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at San Francisco, and then a member of the scientific staff of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Joining the faculty of Yale University in 1985, Dr. Hockfield’s research focused on the development of the brain. At Yale, Dr. Hockfield first served as dean of its Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and later as provost, Yale’s chief academic and administrative officer.
From December 2004 until July 2012, Dr. Hockfield served as the 16th president of MIT.
