Karen Gleason

Karen Klincewicz Gleason is the Associate Provost at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she has also served as the Alexander and I. Michael Kasser Professor of Chemical Engineering, from 2006–present. She has invented over 15 patented designs. She has developed a hydrophobic surface that can be applied in energy harvesting.

Gleason was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2015 for invention, application development, scale-up, and commercialization of chemically vapor deposited polymers. Provided by Wikipedia