Dr. Mujid Kazimi

Mujid S. Kazimi is Professor of Nuclear and Mechanical Engineering at MIT, whose faculty he joined in 1976. He is the current and founding director of the Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems (CANES) at MIT. He is also the director of the Kuwait Center for Natural Resources and the Environment (KUMIT) at MIT. He has extensive experience in design and safety analysis of nuclear fission reactors, fusion technology devices, and high-level radioactive waste storage facilities. He has authored and co-authored more than 200 papers in journals and conferences and the two-volume textbook Nuclear Systems on the thermal hydraulic analysis of nuclear reactors

Professor Kazimi is a frequent advisor to US and international institutions on matters involving energy and the environment. He chaired the Department of Energy (DOE) Advisory Panel on High Level Waste Tanks from 1990 to 1995. He was a member of the 2003-2004 National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Committee on The Production and Use of Hydrogen. He was a member of the NAE committee on DOE R&D Programs for Development of Nuclear Energy in 2006 to 2007. He has been a member of review committees for R&D programs at several national laboratories in the US as well as in Holland, Spain, Switzerland and Kuwait. He was a member of the Board of Managers of Battelle Energy Alliance, charged with management of the Idaho National Laboratory from 2005 to 2009. He co-chaired the MIT interdisciplinary study on the “Future of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle” in 2009-2011. He currently serves on the International Advisory Board on nuclear energy to the Government of the United Arab Emirates.

He obtained the B.Eng. degree with Distinction and First Class Honor from University of Alexandria, Egypt, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from MIT, all in Nuclear Engineering. He is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society, The American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the International Nuclear Energy Academy.