CMU Portugal faculty member Erica Fuchs has been named Kavčić-Moura Professor of the Engineering and Public Policy (EPP) Department at CMU. This appointment is one of the highest recognitions that can be awarded to a faculty member.
Fuchs has been a co-advisor to CMU Portugal Dual Degree PhD alumni, Afonso Amaral, and has participated in recent CMU Portugal Summits, including presenting Engineering and Public Policy during the Fall 2024 Portuguese Delegation visit to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh led by Professor Fernando Alexandre, Portugal’s Minister of Education, Science and Innovation.
Fuchs is a Professor in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy, and by courtesy in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy. She is also director of the Critical Technology Initiative at Carnegie Mellon. Fuchs’s research focuses on the development, commercialization and global manufacturing of emerging technologies, and national policy in that context.
To learn more about this prestigious award and its other recipients, please see the recent article by CMU.
