Paper-thin, Organic Photovoltaic Circuits Fabricated Directly on Ubiquitous, Everyday Substrates (Printed Electronics and Photovoltaics Europe 2011)

Dr. Karen K. Gleason is the Alexander and I. Michael Kasser Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 1982, she simultaneously received her B.S. in Chemistry and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from MIT. In 1987, she was awarded a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. She received both the NSF Presidential Young Investigator and ONR Young Investigators Program awards. In 2000, Dr. Gleason was the Van Ness Award Lecturer at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. From 2001 to 2004 she served as Executive Officer (Vice-Chair) of MIT's Chemical Engineering Department; from 2005 to 2008 she served as Associate Director for MIT's Institute of Soldier Nanotechnologies; and from 2008 to 2001 she served as Associate Dean for Research at MIT's School of Engineering.

 

Prof. Gleason has authored more than 200 publications including multiple invited review articles on the chemical vapor deposition of polymers that have appeared in the journals Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics, Chemical Vapor Deposition, and Materials Today. She serves on the Editorial Boards of Plasma Processes and Polymers and Chemical Engineering Communications and has been a Guest Editor for a special issue of Chemical Vapor Deposition. She is the inventor on more than a dozen issued U.S. Patents. Her international scientific experiences include appointments as Donders Visiting Professorship at Utrecht University, Netherlands; Mawson Lecturer at the University of South Australia; keynote lecture at the MURAI Workshop on Low k Dielectrics, Tsukuba, Japan; and chair of the Gordon Conference of Diamond Synthesis, Oxford, UK.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), www.mit.edu, Cambridge, MA is the globally number 1 ranked institution of research and higher education (based on Quacquarelli Symonds ranking in 2012-2013), with over 25,000 existing spawn out companies that collectively employ 3.3 million people and generate over $2 trillion annually (equivalent of 11th largest economy in the world), according to a 2009 study by Kaufman Foundation