Jennifer L. Freeman, Ph.D.

Education:

• B.S., Cell and Structural Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Ph.D., Environmental Toxicology and Molecular Cytogenetics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Background:

Jennifer Freeman is the assistant vice president for research at Purdue University, where she also serves a professor of toxicology and health sciences and Showalter Faculty Scholar. She is a member of the Purdue University Teaching Academy, an honor which is only offered to 10% of Purdue faculty.

Freeman began her tenure with Purdue as an assistant professor in 2007, and throughout the years she has held the positions of Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Director, School of Health Sciences Undergraduate Honors Research Program Director, and Associate Head of the School of Health Sciences, among other roles. She has also been honored as a Purdue University Faculty Scholar and as the recipient of the Purdue College of Health and Human Sciences Early Career Research Achievement Award, the Exceptional Early Career Teaching Award, and the Society of Toxicology’s Women in Toxicology Outstanding Young Investigator Award, among many others. In 2019, Freeman received the Charles B. Murphy Teaching Award, Purdue’s top teaching award.

Within Freeman’s area of research in environmental health and toxicology, she has over 100 peer-reviewed publications with over 10,000 citations. Her research expertise and leadership is recognized nationally and internationally through invited seminars and participation in NIH, NSF, CDC, DoD, Alzheimer’s Association, ZonMw (Netherlands), FNRS (Belgium), ANR (France), NSERC (Canada), Genome Canada, Parkinson’s UK, and European Science Foundation review panels, among others. In addition, she served on two NASEM committees.

Freeman completed her postdoctoral research and NIH-NRSA Fellowship at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

Fields of Specialization: Biology, Toxicology