Lorna Jane Gibson is an American materials scientist and engineer currently the Matoula S. Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at

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Education

Lorna Gibson received her

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(BASc) in Civil Engineering from the

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in 1978. Gibson then attended the

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, where she received her

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in Materials Engineering in 1981 for research supervised by

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, and focused on the elastic and plastic behavior of cellular materials.

Career and research

After receiving her PhD, Gibson worked as a Senior Engineer at Arctec Canada Ltd., which she left to work in academia. Gibson worked as an Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering at the

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from 1982 to 1984. Gibson then moved to MIT where she became an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering in 1984, and an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering in 1987. Gibson became a full professor in both departments in 1995, and a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering in 1996. Since 1997, she has been the Matoula S. Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. Gibson also served as Chair of the Faculty from 2005 to 2006 and was Associate Provost from 2006 to 2008. In 2005, Gibson founded OrthoMimetics Ltd. and served as its Mechanics of Materials Advisor. In 2009, OrthoMimetics was acquired by Belgian company

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in a deal valued at £14.3 million.

Awards and honors

In 2015, Gibson was named a MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT's top award for undergraduate teaching.

References

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