Katherine Faber | |
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 Faber at the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University | |
| Born | Katherine Theresa Faber June 19, 1953 Buffalo, New York, U.S. |
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| Spouse | Thomas Felix Rosenbaum |
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| Doctoral advisor | Anthony G. Evans |
Katherine T. Faber is an American materials scientist and one of the world's foremost experts in ceramic engineering, material strengthening, and ultra-high temperature materials. Faber is the Simon Ramo Professor of Materials Science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).[1] She was previously the Walter P. Murphy Professor and department chair of Materials Science and Engineering at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University.[2]
Faber is known for her work in the fracture mechanics of brittle materials and energy-related ceramics and composites, including the Faber-Evans model of crack deflection which is named after her.[3][4][5] Her research encompasses a broad range of topics, from ceramics for thermal and environmental barrier coatings in power generation components to porous solids for filters and flow in medical applications. Faber is the co-founder and previous co-director of the Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts and also oversees a number of collaborative endeavors, especially with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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- ^ "Katherine T. Faber". Caltech Division of Engineering and Applied Science. Retrieved October 19, 2022.
- ^ "News | Professor Faber Receives the John Jeppson Award". Caltech Materials Science. April 21, 2015. Archived from the original on June 28, 2023. Retrieved October 23, 2022.
- ^ Kamble, Mithil; Lakhnot, Aniruddha Singh; Koratkar, Nikhil; Picu, Catalin R. (June 1, 2020). "Heterogeneity-induced mesoscale toughening in polymer nanocomposites". Materialia. 11: 100673. doi:10.1016/j.mtla.2020.100673. ISSN 2589-1529.