Academician Kemal Hanjalić in Global Energy Prize Shortlist Nominees

The Global Energy Prize is an international award for outstanding scientific innovations and solutions in energy research and technology worldwide and simultaneous environmental challenges.

Among 44 scientists from fourteen countries nominated for the award in the 16th cycle, Academician Kemal Hanjalić, University of Sarajevo professor emeritus was among the ten most respected researchers in the shortlist - For outstanding contribution into the development of the fundamentals of thermal physics, experimental and computational methods with the aim of developing modern power-generating and energy-saving equipment.

At the official press conference held in Moscow, on 6 June 2018 the Global Energy Award Committee, consisting of twenty experts from thirteen countries chaired by famous scientist and Nobel Prize laureate Rodney John Allam, awarded this year's award to Sergey Alekseenko (Russia) and Martin Green (Australia).

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http://globalenergyprize.org/en/media-room/news/2018/05/the-global-energy-prize-2018-shortlist-made-public-at-spief. 

Academician Kemal Hanjalić is a University of Sarajevo and Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands professor emeritus. He was born in Sarajevo in 1939. He graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in 1964 and obtained a Master's degree from the University of Birmingham and defended a doctoral dissertation in the field of fluid mechanics at the prestigious Imperial College of Science and Technology in London.
Apart from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, as a full professor he lectured at the Erlangen University in Nuremberg, University of Michigan, USA, University of La Sapienza in Rome. As a visiting lecturer he also taught at numerous prestigious universities in the world (Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, University of Cambridge, University in California, Kyoto University, University of Singapore, etc.).
Academician Hanjalić also held various professional and social functions in his professional career: he was Institute of Process Engineering Director, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Dean, Mayor of Sarajevo, Minister of Science and Technological Development in the Republic Government, and Yugoslav delegate at the OECD Committee for the Environment in Paris. Professor Hanjalić is a regular member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Royal Academy of Technical Sciences of Great Britain, a member of a number of scientific and professional associations in the United States, Turkey, Switzerland, Japan, China and other countries and has won numerous awards and awards for scientific research work.