# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paula-t-hammond
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:16:14.785Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paula-t-hammond"
name: "Paula T. Hammond"
slug: "paula-t-hammond"
description: "Paula Therese Hammond is an Institute Professor and the Dean of the School of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2015, she became the first woman and person of color appointed as head of the Chemical Engineering department. Her laboratory designs polymers and nanoparticles for drug delivery and energy-related applications including batteries and fuel cells."
tagline: "American chemical engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paula_Hammond%2C_PCAST_Member_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1963"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           7.694638666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "پاؤلا ٹی ہیمنڈ"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump