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Katherine T. Faber is the Simon Ramo Professor of Materials Science at Caltech. She earned her B.S. in ceramic engineering from Alfred University, her MS in ceramic science from the Pennsylvania State University, and a PhD in materials science and engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining Caltech, she held positions as Assistant and Associate Professor of Ceramic Engineering at the Ohio State University and Associate Professor, Professor, and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering in the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University. She also served as Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research in the McCormick School at Northwestern and as Department Chair.

Professor Faber is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of ASM International, of the World Academy of Ceramics, and is a Distinguished Life Member of the American Ceramic Society. Among her awards are the Toledo Glass and Ceramics Award, the John Jeppson Award and the W. David Kingery Award, all of the American Ceramic Society, the Society of Women Engineers Distinguished Educator Award, and the Edward DeMille Campbell Memorial Lecture of ASM International. She served as president of the American Ceramic Society in 2006–07. While at Northwestern University, she co-founded and co-directed the Northwestern University/Art Institute of Chicago Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts, where advanced materials characterization and analytical techniques are used in support of conservation science. She currently serves on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Standing Committee on Defense Materials, Manufacturing, and Its Infrastructure.

Her research interests include the fracture and toughening of brittle materials and the use of synchrotron radiation to study residual stresses and fracture. She has additional interests in cultural heritage science as well as ceramics for energy-related applications, including thermal and environmental barrier coatings for power generation and molten regolith electrolysis for the production of metals and O2, and in porous solids for filtration and flow.