Judith A. Harrison is an American physical chemist and tribologist who is known for pioneering numerical methods that incorporate chemical reactions into modeling studies. She is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
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Education
Harrison attended the University of New Hampshire, and completed a Ph.D in computational quantum chemistry on gas-phase reaction dynamics under the supervision of H.R. Mayne in 1989.
Career
After a yearlong post-doctoral appointment at Duke University, Harrison joined the research group of Carter White and Richard Colton at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) as an American Society of Engineering Education postdoctoral associate She joined the chemistry department at the United States Naval Academy as an assistant professor, and was subsequently promoted to the ranks of associate professor and full professor. She has also held visiting scientist appointments at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Pennsylvania.
Harrison currently serves on the editorial board of Tribology Letters. She has held a variety of leadership, educational, and advisory roles in the AVS and STLE, and is the Vice-Chair for the 2022 Gordon Research Conference on Tribology.