Alice Gast
| Alice P. Gast | |
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| 16th President & Rector of Imperial College London | |
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Assumed office September 1, 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Keith O'Nions |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Alice Petry Gast 25 May 1958 Houston, Texas, USA |
| Spouse(s) | Bradley J. Askins |
| Children | Rebecca Askins-Gast David Askins-Gast |
| Residence | South Kensington, London, United Kingdom |
| Alma mater |
University of Southern California (B. Sc., 1980) Princeton University (M.A., 1981; Ph.D. 1984) |
| Profession | Academic, Researcher |
| Website | http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/president |
Alice Petry Gast (born May 25, 1958) is the 16th President of Imperial College London in London, United Kingdom. She became Imperial's president on 1 September 2014. An internationally renowned scholar, researcher and academic leader, Gast was named one of the top 100 “Modern Era” engineers in the country under the category of “Leadership” by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
Born in Houston, Texas, USA, Gast graduated as valedictorian from the University of Southern California in 1980 with a B.Sc. in chemical engineering. She completed her postgraduate work at Princeton University, receiving a M.A. (1981) and Ph.D. (1984) in chemical engineering, with thesis titled A Study of Polymer-Induced Phase Transitions in Colloidal Suspensions and was a Hertz Fellow. She spent a postdoctoral year completing a NATO fellowship at the École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles in Paris. From 1985 to 2001 she taught at Stanford University, and then moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she served as the Vice President for Research and Associate Provost until her appointment as Lehigh University President in 2006.
The focus of Gast's research career was the study of surface and interfacial phenomena, in particular the behavior of complex fluids. Her areas of research include colloidal aggregation and ordering, protein lipid interactions, and enzyme reactions at surfaces. She is the co-author of Physical Chemistry of Surfaces, a classic textbook on colloid and surface phenomena, and has presented named lectures at several of the nation's leading research institutions.
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