John Abraham

John P. Abraham is a professor of thermal sciences in the School of Engineering at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. He holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Minnesota and teaches courses on heat transfer, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics and numerical simulation. Abraham is a prolific thermal science researcher and consultant, with experience ranging from turbulent fluid flow and biomedical device design to energy production/distribution and oceanography. He has produced roughly 500 publications, books, book chapters, conference presentations and patents, and he has also written hundreds of popular press articles and made about 200 radio and television appearances. Abraham has been on the faculty at St. Thomas since 2002, rising from assistant professor to full professor in 2013; he also co founded the Climate Science Rapid Response Team in 2010, an international network of scientists that links media and policymakers with climate experts fable.co. In addition to his research and outreach work, he has authored books on small scale wind power and the transition from laminar to turbulent flow and now serves as an editor of Elsevier’s long running Advances in Heat Transfer series.