Mujid S. Kazimi

Mujid S. Kazimi "is Professor of Nuclear and Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the current and founding director of the Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems (CANES) at MIT. He has authored more than two hundred papers in journals and conferences and the two-volume textbook Nuclear Systems on thermal hydraulic analysis of nuclear reactors. Professor Kazimi holds the Tokyo Electric Power Company Professorship in Nuclear Engineering at MIT. He has participated in advisory panels for the US Department of Energy, the Electric Power Institute and the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission and at several national laboratories and universities in the US as well as in Kuwait, Japan, Jordan, Spain, and Switzerland. He is a member of the Board of Managers of Battelle Energy Alliance, which manages the Idaho National Laboratory.  He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Al-Quds University in Jerusalem. He is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society and The American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Kazimi was born in Jerusalem, Palestine. He obtained the B.Eng. from University of Alexandria, Egypt in 1969, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from MIT in 1971 and 1973 respectively, all in Nuclear Engineering."


 * Director, Trans-Arab Research Institute