Klavs F. Jensen

Klavs Flemming Jensen[1] (born August 5, 1952)[2] is a chemical engineer who is currently the Warren K. Lewis Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).[2] From 2007 to July 2015 he was the Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT.[3]

Education

Jensen received his chemical engineering education from the Technical University of Denmark (M.Sc., 1976) and University of Wisconsin–Madison (PhD, 1980).[2][4][5][6][7] Jensen's PhD advisor was W. Harmon Ray.[7]

Research

Jensen's research revolves around reaction and separation techniques for on-demand multistep synthesis, methods for automated synthesis, and microsystems biological discovery and manipulation.[5] He is considered one of the pioneers of flow chemistry.[8]

Jensen, Armon Sharei and Robert S. Langer were the founders of SQZ Biotech.[9][10] The trio developed the cell squeezing method in 2012.[11] It enables delivery of molecules into cells by a gentle squeezing of the cell membrane.[11] It is a high throughput vector-free microfluidic platform for intracellular delivery.[11] It eliminates the possibility of toxicity or off-target effects as it does not rely on exogenous materials or electrical fields.[11]

Jensen, along with Timothy F. Jamison, Allan Myerson and coworkers, designed a refrigerator-sized mini factory to make clinic-ready drug formulations.[12] The mini factory can make thousands of doses of a drug in about two hours.[12] The factory can allow sudden public health needs to be more easily addressed.[12] It can also be useful in developing countries and for making medicines with a short shelf life.[12] Chemical & Engineering News named the mini factory in their list of notable chemistry research advances from 2016.[12]

Honours

Memberships and fellowships

Jensen was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1987.[2][4][5][13] Jensen became an Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2004 and American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2007.[2][4][14][15][16][17] He also became a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2002 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008.[2][4][5] In May 2017, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his "distinguished and continuing achievements in original research."[5][7]

Awards

In 2008, Jensen was included as one of the "100 Chemical Engineers of the Modern Era" by AIChE's Centennial Celebration Committee.[2][18][19][20] In March 2012, he was the first recipient of the IUPAC-ThalesNano Prize in Flow Chemistry.[2][8][20] Jensen was named in Foreign Policy magazine's 2016 list of the leading global thinkers along with Timothy F. Jamison and Allan Myerson.[21] In 2016, he received the AIChE Founders Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Chemical Engineering.[22][23] Jensen has also received the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ "Klavs Flemming Jensen, Ph.D.". academictree.org. Archived from the original on May 24, 2017. Retrieved May 24, 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Klavs F. Jensen". National Taiwan University. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 24, 2017. Retrieved May 24, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Plenary Speakers". ASME. Archived from the original on May 24, 2017. Retrieved May 24, 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "Klavs F. Jensen". aiche.org. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "National Academy of Sciences elects six MIT professors for 2017" (PDF). Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab. Retrieved May 23, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Klavs Jensen". MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Retrieved May 23, 2017.
  7. 1 2 3 "Chemical engineering alum elected to National Academy of Sciences". University of Wisconsin–Madison. Archived from the original on May 24, 2017. Retrieved May 24, 2017.
  8. 1 2 "Klavs F. Jensen Wins First IUPAC-ThalesNano Prize in Flow Chemistry". International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. Archived from the original on May 24, 2017. Retrieved May 24, 2017.
  9. ↑ "Startups Can Get Medical Device Prototypes Built through Draper’s Sembler Initiative". Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. Archived from the original on May 24, 2017. Retrieved May 24, 2017.
  10. ↑ "Klavs F. Jensen Ph.D.". Bloomberg L.P. Archived from the original on May 24, 2017. Retrieved May 24, 2017.
  11. 1 2 3 4 Sharei A, Zoldan J, Adamo A, Sim WY, Cho N, Jackson E, Mao S, Schneider S, Han MJ, Lytton-Jean A, Basto PA, Jhunjhunwala S, Lee J, Heller DA, Kang JW, Hartoularos GC, Kim KS, Anderson DG, Langer R, Jensen KF (February 2013). "A vector-free microfluidic platform for intracellular delivery". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 110 (6): 2082–7. PMC 3568376 Freely accessible. PMID 23341631. doi:10.1073/pnas.1218705110.
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 "Top Research of 2016". Chemical & Engineering News. Archived from the original on May 23, 2017. Retrieved May 23, 2017.
  13. ↑ "Klavs F. Jensen". Guggenheim Fellowship. Archived from the original on May 24, 2017. Retrieved May 24, 2017.
  14. ↑ "Klavs Jensen". aaas.org. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
  15. ↑ "Klavs F. Jensen". mit.edu. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
  16. ↑ "Lab". mit.edu. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
  17. ↑ "Klavs F. Jensen". scholar.google.com. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
  18. ↑ "100 Chemical Engineers of the Modern Era" (PDF). American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Retrieved May 23, 2017.
  19. ↑ "100 Chemical Engineers of the Modern Era". Engineering and Technology History Wiki. Archived from the original on September 8, 2016. Retrieved May 23, 2017.
  20. 1 2 "Reaction Chemistry & Engineering editorial board members". Royal Society of Chemistry. Archived from the original on May 24, 2017. Retrieved May 24, 2017.
  21. ↑ "Global Thinkers 2016, The Healers: Timothy Jamison, Klavs Jensen, and Allan Myerson". Foreign Policy. Archived from the original on May 23, 2017. Retrieved May 23, 2017.
  22. ↑ "Prof. Klavs Jensen wins AIChE Founders Award". Advanced Research Center-Chemical Building Blocks Consortium. Archived from the original on May 23, 2017. Retrieved May 23, 2017.
  23. ↑ "2016 Annual Meeting Honors Ceremony Recap". American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Archived from the original on May 23, 2017. Retrieved May 23, 2017.
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