Karen K Gleason

Karen K. Gleason is Associate Provost and the Alexander and I. Michael Kasser Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT, USA. Her BSc and MSc degrees are from MIT and her PhD is from the University of California at Berkeley. Karen K. Gleason has authored more than 300 publications and holds 18 issued US patents for CVD polymers and their applications in optoelectronics, sensing, microfluidics, energy storage, and biomedical devices, and also for the surface modification of membranes. At MIT,...See more

Karen K. Gleason is Associate Provost and the Alexander and I. Michael Kasser Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT, USA. Her BSc and MSc degrees are from MIT and her PhD is from the University of California at Berkeley. Karen K. Gleason has authored more than 300 publications and holds 18 issued US patents for CVD polymers and their applications in optoelectronics, sensing, microfluidics, energy storage, and biomedical devices, and also for the surface modification of membranes. At MIT, she has served as Executive Officer of the Chemical Engineering Department; Associate Director for the Institute of Soldier Nanotechnologies; and as Associate Dean of Engineering for Research. She is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineering (AIChE) and has held the Donders Visiting Chair Professorship at Utrecht University in 2006. Her awards include the ID TechEx Printed Electronics Europe Best Technical Development Materials Award, the AIChE Process Development Research Award, and Young Investigator Awards from both the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research. See less