 BSc Tech (1954) and PhD (1957) in Chemical Engineering at

the University of Manchester Division Head, Harwell (1957 - 1982)
 Professor of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London(1985-2019)
 Founder, Heat Transfer&Fluid Flow Service- HTFS (1967)
 Executive Editor, Heat Exchanger Design Handbook (19822010) Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (1985)
 Fellow of the Royal Society (1990)
 President of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (1989-90)
 President of the Assembly International Heat Transfer
Conferences (1994-1998)
 Foreign Member, US National Academy of Engineering (1998)
Awards☆ Luikov Medal (International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer, 1982)☆ Donald Q. Kern Award, AIChE (1980)☆ Institution of Chemical Engineers Council Medal (1994)☆ Max Jakob Award, AIChE and ASME (1995)☆ Nusselt-Reynolds Prize (1997)☆ Global Energy International Prize (2007)☆ Sharma Medal, IChemE (2017)

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B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, 1984, Universityof Coimbra, Portugal.
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, 1992, Imperial
College, London, U.K.
Professor of Mechanical Engineering atInstituto Superior Técnico, Univ. Lisboa, from1992.
Associate Editor of Proceedings of theCombustion InstituteMember of the Editorial Board of Aerospace,Combustion and Flame, Energy Conversion andManagement, Energies, and Energy and Fuels

Main research interests: solid fuels (coal,biomass) and liquid fuel combustion, laboratory
gaseous flames, control and formation ofpollutants, mild combustion, ammonia
combustion

Caleb Brett Award of the Institute of Energy, U.K. - 1991
Sugden Award of the British Section of the Combustion Institute - 1991
Fellow of the Combustion Institute – 2020MA, 1958 University of Cambridge
Harwell – Nuclear Engineer, 1958-1960
PhD,1963, University of Cambridge
Oxford University Lecturer in Engineering Science, 1963-2005
Fellow of Lincoln College, 1968-2005

Senior Tutor, Tutor for Graduates, Sub-Rector

Sabbatical year at MIT USA, 1970-1971
Supernumerary Fellow Lincoln College, 2005-2021
Visiting Professor, Brunel University London, 2005-2021
Associate Editor for the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer
Research Contributions - established the research group atOxford as a key international centre for nucleate boiling

Fundamental studies of boiling mechanisms based on localizedmeasurements
Chaos and nucleation site interactions in pool boilingFirst spatio-temporally resolved measurements of wall temperature andheat flux fields under sliding vapour bubbles.
Fundamental studies on flow boiling in confined passages,Correlations for predicting pool boiling heat transfer rates.

Awards☆ Visiting Fellowship – Japan Soc. for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo University,(hosted by Prof. M. Shoji), 2003
☆ Life Contribution to Heat Transfer, UK National Heat Transfer Committee, 2020.

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B.Sc. Eng. (Mech) cum laude, 1967, Pretoria University
M.Sc. Eng. (Mech), 1971, Pretoria University
Ph.D. (Mech Eng), 1980, Stellenbosch University
D. Eng., 2012, Stellenbosch University
Chair of Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stellenbosch
University, 1986, 1992, 1996 – 1998, 2001 – 2002
Supervised 70+ graduate theses, including 18 PhDs
Wrote 150+ journal and conference papers
Played a leading role in the development of turbomachinery inSouth Africa
Qualified pilot in South African Air Force (rank of captain)

Awards• Fellow of the Aeronautical Society of South Africa• Honorary Fellow of the South African Institution of Mechanical Engineers• Member of the South African Association for Applied and Theoretical Mechanics• Member of the Sustainable Energy Society of South Africa• Member of the American Society for Mechanical Engineers

Career Highlights
 Dipl. Ing. (1976), M.S. (1984), D.Sc. (1992) in Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia
 University of Belgrade (1980-84, 1984-92, 1993-95)
 Danish Technical University, Lyngby-Kopenhagen (1984)
 University of Missouri, Rolla (1989-1990)
 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of M&IE / MechSE (1993-94, 1995 - 2022)
 Stoecker Faculty Fellow and Distinguished Research Professor
 Director, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Center (ACRC)
Creative Thermal Solutions, Inc. (CTS), Founder and President, 2003 - 2022
Research Interests and Contributions
Air-conditioning, refrigeration, heat pumps, transcritical CO2, ammonia, microchannel and plate heat exchangers,
heat transfer and pressure drop, flow visualization, two-phase distribution, effect of oil, natural and synthetic
low-GWP refrigerants, …
Honors and Awards

Accomplishments and Output•Fellow ASHRAE, SAE, ASME

•120 PhD and MS students•IEA Ritter von Rittinger Award (2008)•100 Visiting Scholars•IIR Gustav Lorentzen Medal (2011)••

Academician of the Academy of Engineering Sciences of Serbia(2012)

200 Journal Articles, 400 Conference Papers, 100 TechnicalReports•100 Invited Lectures•Institute of Refrigeration J&E Hall Medal (2012)•ASHRAE Louise and Bill Holladay Distinguished Fellow Award(2019)

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ASME Heat Transfer MemorialAward (1978)
AIChE/ASME Max Jakob
Memorial Award (1990)
ICHMT Luikov Medal (1990)
Nusselt–Reynolds Prize (1993)
ICHMT Fellowship Award (2004)
ASME Medal (2006)

 B.S. (Mech. Engg., 1948) from Cornell University, M.S. (Mech.
Engg., 1950 and Phys., 1951) and Ph.D. (Mech. Engg., 1959)
from University of Minnesota
 Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University ofMinnesota (1965-2018)
 President of the Assembly for International Heat Transfer
Conferences (1986-1990), the American Society of MechanicalEngineering (1996-1997), and the International Centre for
Heat and Mass Transfer (1999-2002)
 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement ofScience (1986), the American Physical Society (1989), theAmerican Society for Engineering Education (1997), theAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers (1999), and theRoyal Academy of Engineering (1999)
 Member of the United States National Academy ofEngineering (1985), the National Academy of Engineering Mexico (1991), the European Academy of Science and Arts
(2016), and the Pan American Academy of Engineering(2019)
 Honorary member of the Associazione Termotecnica Italiana(2006) and Chairman of the honorary editorial advisoryboard for the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
and the International Communications in Heat and MassTransfer
 Honorary doctoral degrees from Technion Israel Institute ofTechnology (1994), Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal(1996), Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, Minsk,Belarus (1997)