Prof. Jacopo Buongiorno, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jacopo Buongiorno (Nuc Eng PhD, MIT, 2000; Nuc Eng BS, Polytechnic of Milan, 1996) is Associate Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT. His areas of technical expertise and research interest are fluid dynamics, heat transfer and two-phase flow in advanced nuclear systems. For his work in these areas and his teaching at MIT Prof. Buongiorno won several awards, including, recently, the 2008 ASME Heat Transfer Division Best Paper Award, the Carl R. Soderberg Professorship in Power Engineering (2007) and the Junior Bose Teaching Award (2007). More information available at http://web.mit.edu/nse/people/faculty/buongiorno.html