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PROFESSOR KAMBIZ VAFAI

Kambiz Vafai is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of California, Riverside (UCR). Author of over 260 archival journal articles, book chapters, books (Ed.) and symposium volumes (Ed.); he has given over 120 national and international invited lectures, keynote addresses and presentations. He is a Fellow of American Association for Advancement of Science, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Porous Media and Special Topics and Reviews in Porous Media—an International Journal and serves on the editorial advisory board of various journals. He is the editor of the "Handbook of Porous Media" and "Porous Media, Applications in Biological Systems and Biotechnology" which became best sellers. He has worked on a multitude of fundamental research investigations, a number of which have addressed some pertinent concepts presented for the first time. He is among the very few engineering scientists within the prestigious ISI highly cited category. He has consulted for various companies and national labs and has been granted seven U.S. patents and an additional 11 patent applications being at various stages in the US patent office. He is the recipient of the ASME Classic Paper Award in 1999 and had received the 2006 ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award and the highest award of the International Society of Porous Media.