Cynthia Roberta McIntyre
Theoretical physicist
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Dr. Cynthia R. McIntyre (born 1960) is a theoretical physicist and former Senior Vice President at the Council on Competitiveness. Her research focuses on the electronic and optical properties of semiconductor heterostructures.[1] She was the second Black woman to receive a PhD in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2]
Cynthia R. McIntyre | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1960 (age 65–66) |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | "New models of magnetic interactions for bound magnetic polarons in dilute magnetic semiconductors" (1990) |
| Peter A. Wolff | |
Biography
McIntyre was born in 1960[1] and grew up in San Antonio, Texas as the only child of two school teachers.[3] She received her PhD in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990. Her research focus is condensed matter physics, and she completed a dissertation "New models of magnetic interactions for bound magnetic polarons in dilute magnetic semiconductors" advised by Peter A. Wolff.[4] When she was a graduate student, McIntyre co-founded the National Conference of Black Physics Students and organized the first NCBPS conference.[5] For this work, she became one of the first recipients of the MIT's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Award in 1995.[3] She continues to be involved[6] in this organization.
McIntyre then went on to serve as the Commonwealth Professor of Physics at George Mason University.[7]
Career
- Chief of Staff to the President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from 1999–2007.
- Governing Board of the American Physical Society (1998-2000).
- Board of Trustees for Spelman College (2003-2009).
- External Advisory Committee of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University (2005 to present).
- National Research Council Research Associateship. Conducted research on low-dimensional semiconductor systems at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C.[8]
- Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California at San Diego[8]
- Senior Vice President at the Council on Competitiveness
- She contributed to the development of policies aiding the use of high-performance computing (HPC) in the private sector for economic and competitive gains.
