Shirley

Biography

Dr. Jackson has been president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a technological research university, since 1999. She was chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission under President Clinton from 1995 to 1999, and Professor of Physics at Rutgers University and consultant to AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1991 to 1995. In 2014, President Barack Obama appointed Dr. Jackson to The President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, where she served until 2017. She is a recipient of the National Medal of Science, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Philosophical Society, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, and the Royal Academy of Engineering (U.K.). She is a life trustee of M.I.T., and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Dr. Jackson is a former director of Marathon Oil Corporation and a former trustee of The Brookings Institution.

Research Interest

Pharmaceuticals