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About Krystyn Van Vliet
- Krystyn J.
- Van Vliet (born June 21, 1976) is an American engineer, currently the Michael (1949) and Sonja Koerner Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Van Vliet received her Sc.B.
- degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Brown University in 1998, and her Ph.D.
- in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT in 2002.
- She became a faculty member at MIT in 2004. 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.
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