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.
[4] 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.
Professor Gleason's research is on Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) of thin polymer films.
Gleason's research on CVD has led to novel antifouling coatings for membranes, to inhibit biofilm development, through the use of zwitterionic moieties.
She received All-American NCAA Division III accolades all her four years as an undergraduate.