Lorna J. Gibson
MATOULA S. SALAPATAS PROFESSOR OF MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Professor Gibson retired in January of 2022 and is no longer accepting graduate students or postdocs.
Professor Lorna Gibson studies the mechanical behavior of materials, specializing in materials with a cellular structure, such as engineering honeycombs and foams, scaffolds for regenerative engineering, and natural materials such as wood, bamboo and plant leaves and stems. She is the co-author of several books: Cellular Solids: Structure and Properties (with MF Ashby), Metal Foams: A Design Guide, (with MF Ashby, AG Evans, NA Fleck, JW Hutchinson and HNG Wadley) and Cellular Materials in Nature and Medicine (with MF Ashby and BA Harley).
Professor Gibson teaches 3.032 Mechanical Behavior of Materials and 3.054 Cellular Solids: Structure, Properties and Applications. Both are also available online through edX (3.032x and 3.054x). In Fall 2017 she will also be teaching a Freshman Seminar: How Birds Work. Professor Gibson is a MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT's top award for undergraduate teaching. She has served as Chair of the Faculty and Associate Provost at MIT.
Room: 8-135
Phone: 617-253-7107
Email: ljgibson@mit.edu
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