20th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-20)

Michael Z. Podowski, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Professor Emeritus,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Education: M,S, Ph.D. and Habilitation (D.Sc.) in Nuclear Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland; MS in Mathematics, University of Warsaw.

Served on RPI faculty since 1980 (retired on June 30, 2020), as Professor, Head of Department of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics, and Director of Center for Multiphase Research. Also, was invited as a visiting professor to Oregon State University (1979-80) and MIT (2010-11).

Honors and Awards:

• Fellow of American Nuclear Society (ANS).
• Recipient of 2020 ANS Seaborg Medal.
• Recipient of 2020 Technical Achievements Award of the ANS Thermal-Hydraulics Division.
• Recipient of 2014 ANS Compton Award.
• Listed in the Stanford Univ. ranking of top 2% of the world’s most-cited scientists.
• Member of Kosciuszko Foundation Collegium of Eminent Scientists.
• Recipient of J. Fischbach Faculty Award, RPI, 2014.
• NURETH Fellow (ANS-THD).
• Former member of the ANS Board of Directors.
• Former ANS Representative to the National Heat Transfer Conference Coordinating Committee.
• Former Chair of the ANS Thermal-Hydraulics Division.

Technical expert for the US government and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Professional consultant for numerous institutions and industrial organizations in the US and overseas.

Gave a total of nearly 140 plenary and keynote lectures, seminars and other invited talks.

Author or co-author of over 360 peer-reviewed publications and books/book-chapters, including 70 archival papers published in the following journals:

Int. J. of Multiphase Flow, J. of Heat Transfer, Physics of Fluids, J. of Fluids Engineering, J. of Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Int. J. - Heat and Technology, Int. J. of Heat and Mass Transfer, Int. J. - Chemical Engineering Communications, Archives of Thermodynamics, Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, Nanotechnology, Physico-Chemical Hydrodynamics, J. of Power and Energy Sys­tems, Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, Int. J. of Numerical Meth­ods for Heat and Fluid Flow, Computers & Fluids, Nucl. Sci. and Eng., Nucl. Technology, Nucl. Eng. and Des., Nucl. Eng. and Technology, Atomk­ernenergie, Annals of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations.

Personal involvement in the NURETH conference series:

• Participated in all conferences (1-19), remotely only in NURETH-19.
• Served as Technical Program Chair for NURETH-7.
• Gave five (5) keynote lectures.
• Authored/co-authored 42 papers published in NURETH Proceedings.