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Harry S. Tack Chair of the CENTER FOR ENERGY

The University of Pittsburgh has created a new Center for Energy as part of what Pitt Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg referred to as “the increasing need to address the complex energy challenges of our time, which call for more reliable, efficient, and environmentally friendly energy sources.”

Brian Gleeson is the Harry S. Tack Chair and Professor of Materials Engineering at Pitt and directs the Center for Energy. He earned his PhD degree at UCLA and was a postdoctoral fellow and faculty member at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Gleeson also served as director of the Materials and Engineering Physics Program at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory.

The Center

The Center for Energy, housed in the Swanson School of Engineering, comprises more than 40 world-class faculty members and their research teams, who will apply deep and diverse expertise across a broad spectrum of energy-related projects as well as education and outreach activities. The center’s five areas of research are energy diversification, renewable energy, clean coal technologies, hydrogen, and environmental solutions.

The new center also will be linked to the Pitt-Bradford energy initiative, which has the mission to facilitate education and outreach programs in energy, particularly the regional resources of petroleum and renewables.

Brian Gleeson

Gleeson’s research interests include the high-temperature degradation behavior of metallic alloys and coatings, phase equilibria and transformations, deposition and characterization of metallic coatings, and diffusion and thermodynamic treatments of both gas/solid and solid/solid interactions.

Gleeson is associate editor of the international journal Oxidation of Metals and chaired the 2005 Gordon Research Conference on High Temperature Corrosion. He serves on the International Advisory Board of the journals Advanced Engineering Materials and Materials and Corrosion.

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