Director of the Critical Technology Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University and a Kavčić-Moura Professor in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy. She is also faculty at Carnegie Mellon by courtesy in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, and a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research. Fuchs’ research focuses on the development, commercialization, and global manufacturing of emerging technologies, and national policy in that context. She was previously the founding Faculty Director of Carnegie Mellon’s Manufacturing Futures Initiative – an initiative across six schools, which today is an endowed institute.

Fuchs currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Natcast, the non-profit that oversees the National Semiconductor Technology Center; on M.I.T. Corporation’s Visiting Committee for M.I.T.’s Institute for Data, Systems, and Society; and on the Advisory Editorial Board for Research Policy. Dr. Fuchs has testified in Congressional hearings in both the House and Senate and had her work covered, among others, by Axios, National Public Radio, Bloomberg, and the New York Times. She completed her Ph.D. in Engineering Systems (2006), her Master's in Technology Policy (2003), and her Bachelor's in Materials Science and Engineering (1999), all from M.I.T., and spent 1999-2000 as a fellow at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in Beijing, China. Dr. Fuchs grew up and attended K-12 in the Reading Public School District in Reading, PA. In her free time, she enjoys running, skiing, trekking, yoga, and spending time with her husband and two children.