Jacopo Buongiorno is the Battelle Energy Alliance Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering. He is also the Director of Science and Technology of the MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory and the Director of the Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems (CANES). Jacopo teaches a variety of courses in thermo-fluids and nuclear reactor engineering. He has published >110 journal articles in the areas of reactor safety and design, two-phase flow and heat transfer, and nanofluid technology. For his research work and his teaching he won several awards, among which an ANS Presidential Citation (2022), the MIT MacVicar Faculty Fellowship (2014), the ANS Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award (2011), the ASME Heat Transfer Best Paper Award (2008), and the ANS Mark Mills Award (2001). From 2016 to 2018 he led the MIT study on the Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World. Jacopo is a consultant for the nuclear industry in the area of reactor thermal-hydraulics, a member of the Accrediting Board of the National Academy of Nuclear Training, a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society (including service on its Special Committee on Fukushima in 2011–2012), a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, past member of the Naval Studies Board (2017–2019), past member of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board Space Working Group, and a participant in the Defense Science Study Group (2014–2015).
Jacopo Buongiorno is the Battelle Energy Alliance Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering. He is also the Director of Science and Technology of the MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory and the Director of the Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems (CANES). Jacopo teaches a variety of courses in thermo-fluids and nuclear reactor engineering. He has published >110 journal articles in the areas of reactor safety and design, two-phase flow and heat transfer, and nanofluid technology. For his research work and his teaching he won several awards, among which an ANS Presidential Citation (2022), the MIT MacVicar Faculty Fellowship (2014), the ANS Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award (2011), the ASME Heat Transfer Best Paper Award (2008), and the ANS Mark Mills Award (2001). From 2016 to 2018 he led the MIT study on the Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World. Jacopo is a consultant for the nuclear industry in the area of reactor thermal-hydraulics, a member of the Accrediting Board of the National Academy of Nuclear Training, a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society (including service on its Special Committee on Fukushima in 2011–2012), a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, past member of the Naval Studies Board (2017–2019), past member of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board Space Working Group, and a participant in the Defense Science Study Group (2014–2015).
