Mujid S. Kazimi
Professor of Nuclear and Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and current and founding director in 2000 of the Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems.

Mujid S. Kazimi is Professor of Nuclear and Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose faculty he joined in 1976. He is the current and founding director in 2000 of the Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems (CANES). He has extensive experience in design and safety analysis of advanced nuclear fission reactors, fusion technology devices, and high-level radioactive waste storage facilities. Dr. Kazimi’s interests include the fuel cycle of nuclear reactors and use of nuclear systems for production of hydrogen. He has authored more than two hundred papers in journals and conferences and also the two-volume textbook Nuclear Systems on the thermal hydraulic analysis of nuclear reactors.

Professor Kazimi holds the Tokyo Electric Power Company Professorship in Nuclear Engineering at MIT. He was Head of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT from 1989 to 1997. He is currently Chairman of the MIT reactor safeguards committee and a member of the MIT Energy Research Council,. He is a frequent advisor to US and international institutions on matters involving energy and the environment. He chaired the DOE Advisory Panel on High Level Waste Tanks from 1990 to 1995. He was a member of the 2003-2004 National Academy of Engineering Committee on The Hydrogen Economy. He is a member of the Board of Managers of the Battelle Energy Alliance, charged by the US Department of Energy with management of the Idaho National Laboratory since 2005. He is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society and has been listed in Who is Who in America since 1995.

Dr. Kazimi was born in Jerusalem, Palestine. He obtained the B.Eng. from University of Alexandria, Egypt in 1969 with Distinction and First Class Honor, and the M.S. and Ph.D. from MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1971 and 1973, all in Nuclear Engineering.