Susan Hackwood is the executive director of the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST).
She is a professor and researcher of electrical engineering credited for inventing the concept of electrowetting with Gerardo Beni in 1981.
In 1976, Hackwood was admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Science with Honours in Combined Science at DeMontfort University in Leicester, UK[1] after three years of studies (the norm for undergraduates in the UK).
She received her PhD in 'Solid State Ionics' from DeMontfort in 1979, having also worked at UC Berkeley and Chalmers Institute of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden.
[1] She cofounded the Journal of Robotic Systems in 1984 with Gerardo Beni.