Kathie L. Olsen
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Dr. Kathie L. Olsen is an American neuroscientist who is noted for her work in scientific policy. Since September 2005 she has been the Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer of the National Science Foundation.
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Education
Dr. Olsen obtained a B.S. degree in biology and psychology in 1974 from Chatham College, graduating with honors. She then obtained her doctoral degree at the University of California, Irvine in neuroscience in 1979 with her doctoral thesis, titled Hormonal mechanisms controlling the development and regulation of male-female differences. Upon obtaining her doctorate she accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Neuroscience at Children's Hospital Boston of Harvard Medical School.Career
Following her doctorate Olsen worked as a research scientist at the Long Island Research Institute while holding an Assistant Professorship at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the Stony Brook Medical School.She served as Chief Scientist of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from May 1999 to April 2002.
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- Hormonal mechanisms controlling the development and regulation of male-female differences, Doctoral thesis, 1979
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