Professor Karen Gleason
Professor Gleason is the Alexander and I. Michael Kasser Professor of Chemical Engineering.
Contact Information
Room 66-542
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
Education
- Ph.D. 1987, Chemical Engineering, University of California - Berkeley
- S.M. 1982, Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- S.B. 1982, Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professional Experience
- Associate Provost for Space Planning and Industrial Relationships, 4/2014-6/2018
- Alexander and I. Michael Kasser Professor of Chemical Engineering, 7/2006 to present;
- Professor, 7/2000-6/2006; Associate Professor, 7/1993-6/2000; Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Professorship, 6/1991-5/1995; Assistant Professor 9/1987-6/1993; Herman P. Meissner Career Development Professorship in Chemical Engineering. 9/1987-6/1990.
- Associate Dean of Engineering for Research, 4/2008 to 1/2011
- Associate Director, Institute for Soldier Nanotechnology (ISN), 7/2005 to 4/2008
- Executive Officer (vice-chair), Department of Chemical Engineering, 7/2001 to 6/2004
- GVD Corporation (gvdcorp.com) Cambridge, MA (headquarters) and Greenville, SC (manufacturing), Co-founder and Chief Scientific Advisor, 5/2001 to present
Professor Gleason has over 250 publications and more than 20 issued U.S. Patents
Honors and Awards
- National Academy of Engineering, 2015
- Charles M.A. Stine Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2015
- Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineering, 2013
- Editorial Advisory Board, Advanced Materials Interfaces (Wiley), June 2013-present
- Keynote speaker, 6th International Symposium on Flexible Organic Electronics, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 28, 2013
- Tis Lahiri Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, April 15, 2013
- Chair, 5th International Conference on Hot-Wire Chemical Vapor Deposition, 2008
- American Institute of Chemical Engineering Process Development Research Award 2012
- Scientific Committee, International Conference on Desalination using Membrane Technology, 2012-present
- ID TechEx Printed Electronics Europe Best Technical Development Materials Award 2011
- Inaugural Lecturer for Pall Corporation’s Center on Advanced Materials and Membranes, July 13, 2011
- Mawson Lecturer, University of South Australia, December 2009
- Keynote speaker, 23rd International Conference on Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Semiconductors, Utrecht, Netherlands, August 2009
- Guest Editor of Special Issue on CVD of Polymeric Materials in Chemical Vapor Deposition, June 2009
- Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing, U. Massachusetts-Amherst, External Advisory Board, 2009-present
- Chair, 5th International Conference on Hot-Wire Chemical Vapor Deposition, August 2008
- Donders Visiting Professorship Chair, Utrecht University, Netherlands, 2006
- Keynote speaker, MURAI Workshop on Low k Dielectrics, Tsukuba, Japan, 2006
- Editorial Board, Plasma Processes and Polymers (Wiley), 2005 to 2013
- International Organizing Committee, International Conf. on Hot-Wire Chemical Vapor Deposition, 2004-present
- Excellence Award for Research in Manufacturing and Environment, Safety and Health; sponsored by Semiconductor Research Corporation and International SEMATECH, 2000
- Tenth Annual Van Ness Award Lecturer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2000
- Keynote speaker, Dielectrics for ULSI Multilevel Interconnection, San Jose, CA 1999
- Chair, Gordon Conference of Diamond Synthesis, Oxford, UK, 1998
- Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Professorship, 1991 to 1995
- National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigators Award, 1990 to 1995
- Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program, 1990 to 1993
- Herman P. Meissner Career Development Professorship in Chemical Engineering, 1987 to 1990
- Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award, 1986
- Amoco Foundation Fellowship, 1982 to 1985
- NCAA Postgraduate Fellowship, 1982 to 1983
- MIT Outstanding Scholar Athlete, 1982
- Warren K. Lewis Fellowship, 1981 to 1982
- Corning's Women in Engineering Fellowship, 1981
- Captain, MIT Women's Swimming Team, 1980 to 82
- All-American NCAA Division III Swimming, 1978 to 1982
- National Merit Scholarship, 1978
- Westinghouse Science Talent Search Semifinalist, 1978