 |
|
|
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
| |
| | |
|
|
Official Journal of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy
|
|
|
|
|
| Editors Biography |
|
| T. N. Veziroğlu, College of Engineering, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124, USA |
|
 T. NEJAT VEZIROĞLU
ABRIDGED CURRICULUM VITAE
Dr. Veziroğlu,
a native of Turkey, graduated from the City and Guilds College, the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London,
with degrees in Mechanical Engineering (A.C.G.I., B.Sc.), Advanced Studies in Engineering (D.I.C.) and Heat Transfer (Ph.D.).
In 1962,
after serving in some Turkish Government Agencies as a Technical Consultant and Deputy Director of Steel Silos, and heading a private
company, he joined the University of Miami Engineering Faculty. In 1965, he became the Director of Graduate Studies, Mechanical Engineering,
and initiated the first Ph.D. Program in the School of Engineering and Architecture. He served as Chairman of the Department of Mechanical
Engineering, 1971-1975, and the Associate Dean for Research of the School of Engineering and Architecture, 1975-1979. At present, he
is the Director of the Clean Energy Research Institute at the University of Miami, which acts as the focal point of energy and environment
related research and information dissemination activities.
Dr. Veziroğlu teaches Heat Transfer, Mass Transfer, Nuclear Engineering
and Hydrogen Energy. His research interests are instabilities in Boiling Water Reactors, Interstitial Heat Transfer, Renewable Energy
Sources and Hydrogen Energy System. He has published some 300 scientific reports and papers, edited 200 volumes of proceedings and is
the Editor-in-Chief of the monthly scientific journal, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. He has been an invited lecturer
and/or consultant on energy research and education to many countries, including Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Brazil, Canada, China,
Columbia, Egypt, England, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland,
Russia, Turkey, Ukraine and Venezuela, and to several universities and research organizations in the United States.
Dr. Veziroğlu
organized the first major conference on Hydrogen Energy: The Hydrogen Economy Miami Energy (THEME) Conference, Miami Beach, March 1974.
Subsequently, he has organized several conferences and symposia on Alternative Energy Sources, Environment, Hydrogen Energy, Heat and
Mass Transfer, and Remote Sensing.
Dr. Veziroğlu has membership in some twenty scientific organizations, has been elected
to the Grade of Fellow in the British Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, and is the Founding President of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy.
Dr.
Veziroğlu has been the recipient of several international awards. He was presented the Turkish Presidential Science Award in 1974,
made an Honorary Professor in Xian Jiaotong University of China in 1981, awarded the I.V. Kurchatov Medal by the Kurchatov Institute
of Atomic Energy of U.S.S.R. in 1982, and received the Energy for Mankind Award by the Global Energy Society in 1986. |
|
|
| |
| | |
|
| |
