Professor T. Nejat VEZIROGLU
President of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy
Dr. Veziroglu, 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 he joined the University of Miami. In 1965, he became the Director of Graduate Studies, Mechanical Engineering, and two years later 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 was the Associate Dean for Research (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. Veziroglu’s research interests are instabilities in Boiling Water Reactors, Interstitial Heat Transfer, renewable Energy Sources and Hydrogen Energy System. He has published some 200 scientific reports and papers, edited 160 volumes of proceedings, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the monthly scientific journals: “International Journal of Hydrogen Energy” and “International Journal of Energy Environment Economics”. He has been an invited lecturer and/or consultant on energy research and education to many countries, including USSR, China, India, Japan, Canada, Germany, England, France, Italy, Switzerland, etc.
Dr. Veziroglu organized the first major conference on Hydrogen Energy: Miami Beach, March, 1974. This conference considered hydrogen as a replacement for fossil fuels, as a clean, renewable fuel, and aroused wide interest throughout the world. Subsequently, several conferences and symposia have been organized by Dr. Veziroglu on energy and environment related subjects such as Hydrogen Energy, Remote Sensing Applied to Energy Problems, Ocean Energy Systems, Multi-Phase Flows, Biosphere: Problems and Solutions, and Energy and Environment.
Dr. Veziroglu has memberships in eighteen scientific organizations, and is the Founding President of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy.
In recognition of the high quality of his research, Dr. Veziroglu 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 (1981), and awarded the I.V. Kurchatov Medal by the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, USSR (1982) and Energy for Mankind Award by the Global Energy Society (1986). Now Dr. Veziroglu is elected an Honorary Doctor of the Donetsk State Technical University for Outstanding contribution to Hydrogen Energy Development in the World, for Long and Fruitful Cooperation with DonSTU.