Danna Freedman is the F. G. Keyes Professor of Chemistry at MIT and the inaugural director of Quantum@MIT. Her laboratory’s research focuses on applying inorganic chemistry to address challenges in physics. Key areas of research in her lab include a molecular approach to quantum information science and pressure as a vector for chemical transformation. Danna began her career at Northwestern University as an Assistant Professor. She moved to MIT in 2021 as the F. G. Keyes Professor of Chemistry. She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University and her PhD from University of California, Berkeley where she studied magnetic anisotropy in molecules. As a postdoc at MIT, she engendered spin frustration in kagomé lattices to create quantum spin liquids. Danna’s laboratory's research has been recognized by a number of awards including the MacArthur Fellowship, the ACS award in Pure Chemistry, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, and an NSF CAREER award.