Cynthia Fuhrmann, PhD
Program Director, Academic Career Development|

Cynthia Fuhrmann is the Program Director for Academic Career Development within the Office of Career and Professional Development (OCPD). Fuhrmann leads the development of new programs and services designed to build awareness of the wide variety of academic career options available to all UCSF students and scholars and to help these populations build skills necessary for success in their chosen academic career paths. In particular, she directs the Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) program, including the PFF Summer Series, teaching apprenticeship program, and teaching assistant training programs. She also oversees the Professional and Academic Success Skills (PASS) workshop series.

Prior to joining OCPD, Fuhrmann was a graduate student and postdoctoral scholar in David Agard’s laboratory at UCSF, where she studied the role of hydrogen bonding in serine protease mechanism using ultra-high resolution x-ray crystallography. While a graduate student, she founded UCSF’s Preparing Future Faculty series in 2004, working closely with volunteer student- and postdoc-led Planning Committees. She has teaching experience at the graduate, undergraduate, and K-12 levels, most recently working with Leticia Márquez-Magaña as a postdoctoral fellow in science education at San Francisco State University. Fuhrmann received her Bachelors degree in Chemistry from UC Davis in 1997 and her PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from UCSF in 2005.