[2] She moved to Northwestern University for her doctoral research, where she studied the structure-property relationships of superconducting thin films grown using metalorganic chemical vapor deposition.
[3] Duran joined Intel, where she eventually served as Vice President of Technology Development.
[5] In 2010, Duran was responsible for Supply Chains at Intel, where she was part of the Conflict Free Minerals Team.
[6] She found that the semiconducting chips that Intel were creating used materials that had been mined from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
She led an effort to eliminate conflict materials from the supply chain, identifying audited, legitimate mines that were not involved with armed rebel militia.