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Alice P. Gast

Robert T. Haslam Professor
Vice President for Research and Associate Provost
alice p gast

Department of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room 3-240
77 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge MA 02139 USA

 Phone: (617) 253-1403
Fax: (617) 253-8388
Email: gast@mit.edu
Web: http://web.mit.edu/gastlab

Ph.D., Princeton University, 1984
M.A., Princeton University, 1981
B.S., University of Southern California, 1980

Honors and Awards
National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator, 1985-1990
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, 1991-1992
NAS Award for Initiative in Research, 1992
Allan P. Colburn Award, 1992
Langmuir Lecturer, American Chemical Society, 1995
Hougen Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, August-December 1997
Alexander Cruickshank Lecturer of the Gordon Research Conferences, 1998
Alexander von Humboldt Award, 1998
Rohm & Haas Lecturer, University of North Carolina, 1999
Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 2001

Professional Activity
Chair ACS Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry
Member of the Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology, NAS, 1999-2001

Research Interests
_ complex and supermolecular fluids
_ colloid and surface phenomena

Gast Lab

Current Research
Selected Publications and Lectures