Van Vliet (born June 21, 1976) is vice president for research and innovation at Cornell University and a faculty member in the Cornell University College of Engineering, where she has a joint appointment in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering.

While an undergraduate at Brown, she suffered grave head injuries in a car accident, and fought successfully to regain her memory, judgment, speech and other communication skills.

[3] Van Vliet earned her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2002.

[5] She joined Cornell University as vice president for research and innovation in February 2023.

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