Prof. Kemal Hanjalic

Prof. Hanjalic was born on November, 30, 1939, in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina). He was educated in Bosnia Herzegovina and the United Kingdom and received the following degrees: Dipl. Ing. (Mechanical. Engineering - Energy Engineering) University of Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina (1964), MSc (Thermodynamics and Related Studies) University of Birmingham, UK (1966), and PhD (Fluid Mechanics) Imperial College, University of London, UK (1970).

During the period 1964-1971, he was a research assistant, researcher and senior researcher, Institute for Thermal and Nuclear Engineering ITEN/Energoinvest, Sarajevo, Bosnia; he was Lecturer Associate (1974), (1975-78) he was Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sarajevo and Full Professor (from 1979); (1980-87) Director, Institute for Process- Power and Environmental Engineering, then Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sarajevo; (1985-1987) Mayor of Sarajevo; (1987-91) Minister of Science and Technology in the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina; (1991-1993) DFG Guest Professor, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany; (1994) Professor, Michigan University of Technology, Houghton, MI, USA; (1994-2005) Professor and Head of Section Thermal and Fluids Sciences, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Department of Multi-scale Physics, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands; he is currently guest professor at the Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany.

Prof. Hanjalic is a member of the American Association of Mechanical Engineers (ASME); American Physics Society (APS); International Association of Hydraulic Research (IAHR); European Community for Flow, Turbulence and Combustion (ERCOFTAC); member of the scientific programme Committee and of the industrial advisory committee of ERCOFTAC, and chairman of the ERCOFTAC special interest group for turbulence modeling. He is chairman of the IAHR working group on refined flow modeling, chairman of the executive committee and member of the scientific council of ICHMT (International Center for Heat Mass Transfer, Secretariat in Ankara, Turkey); Member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Hercegovina (1989), Fellow of the Institute of Physics (2004), Fellow of the Islamic World Academy of Sciences (2005).

Prof. Hanjalic award DSc (Eng), University of London 1998 and the Max-Plank Research Prize, Germany, 1992.

Prof. Hanjalic presented over 40 keynote, panel and other invited lectures, and made over 200 contributions (most published in refereed proceedings) at conferences worldwide.

Prof. Hanjalic has over 1500 journal citations and over 30 book citations.