Kathleen Lask, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

United States

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

• Jointly organized a major sporting event of 13,000 participants
• Recruited, trained, and led a team of 400 volunteers
• Successfully troubleshooted event day issues to ensure smooth execution of event
• Led and organized multiple preliminary events, including large group trainings and community outreach events

Australia

• Developed new, successful sales techniques later adopted by the company
• Broke company sales records
• Supervised, mentored, and supported multiple teams of 5-15 people at events
• Honed interpersonal and communication skills to accommodate a wide variety of personalities

United States, Haiti, Mexico

• Designed biomass cookstoves for the developing world that reduce harmful pollutants by 90%
• Developed, modeled, and tested a lighting cone which decreased ignition time by over 50%
• Led a third party comparison study of Haitian charcoal stoves to guide NGO dissemination efforts
• Co-designed and commissioned a state of the art combustion laboratory
• Core competencies in solid fuel combustion, including pyrolysis and soot, and laser diagnosticsField Experience:Port-au-Prince, Haiti:
• Learned Haitian cooking practices to incorporate into lab protocols

LBNL Stove Lab

• Hired and managed 10 stove testers
• Outlined and executed experimental work plans to achieve grant deliverables on schedule
• Researched and developed new testing protocols
• Executed fast feedback testing for rapid prototype development

Adelaide, Australia

• Forged and cultivated an international research collaboration
• Pioneered a novel application of laser diagnostic techniques for biomass cookstoves
• Identified key mechanisms for pollutant reductions utilizing simultaneous laser diagnostic techniques

Palo Alto, CA

• Facilitated progress of articles from idea inception through manuscript publication
• Researched and assembled short-lists of authors and subject matter for invited articles

LBNL Stove Lab

- Hired and managed 5-10 stove testers- Coordinated and directed day to day lab facility operations- Analyzed data collected and modified the course of testing accordingly to complete project goals

Berkeley, CA

• Studied the combined use of afterburners and three-way catalytic converters to reduce pollutant emissions from fuel rich engines, specifically large engines designed to burn landfill gas
• Designed both bench test and full scale exhaust systems

Carbondale, IL

• Executed gas adsorption experiments on nanomaterials for uses in gas storage and separation
• Designed and maintained experimental setup focused on metal-organic frameworks

Bozeman, MT

• Designed an oven to measure thermal expansion with high precision
• Fabricated a complex quartz dilatometer cell within 1/1000 inch accuracy
• Constructed the system using basic machining, spot welding, and thin film deposition techniques

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Applied Science & Technology, College Of Engineering

Activities and Societies: Webmaster for Applied Science & Technology; Board Member of Graduate Women of Engineering (GWE); Mechanical.

Master’S Degree, Applied Science & Technology, College Of Engineering

Bachelor’S Degree, Physics, Mathematics

Activities and Societies: SIUC University Honors Program Director Search Committee; SIUC College of Science Dean Search Committee; SIUC.