Nesreene Ghaddar

American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Nesreene Ghaddar was endowed to fill the Qatar Chair in Energy Studies. She is a Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department at the American University of Beirut. After obtaining her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Ghaddar first worked as an Assistant Professor at Kuwait University, before joining AUB in 1990. She served as the Chairperson of the Mechanical Engineering Department at AUB for six years during 2001–2007. She is a Founding Member and serves as the Coordinator for four years (2000–2004) of the Energy Research Group. Her primary research focus is on the areas of computational and experimental heat transfer, enhancement for efficient cooling, solar energy applications, energy conversion, modeling of moisture and heat transport processes for walking clothed humans, thermal comfort, and energy efficiency. Recent work on thermal comfort has addressed an integrated approach to experimental testing and modeling of clothed-human body heat and mass transport processes and their interaction with their indoor environment, using the results to correlate human thermal comfort and clothing design to building energy consumption. Ghaddar is an Associate Editor of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME) Journal of Applied Mechanics. She is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering, and a Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Green Energy and the International Journal of Thermal Sciences. In 2003, she received the Outstanding Reviewer Award for the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer.

Biography Updated on 2 July 2008

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