גרשון גרוסמן

Sherman-Gilbert Chair in Energy

Education

• 1964 – B.Sc., Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion – I.I.T.
• 1967 – M.Sc., Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion – I.I.T.
• 1971 – Sc.D., Mech. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. USA

Research Interests

• Energy Conservation: waste heat utilization, industrial and residential heat pumps, absorption systems, chillers, heat pumps and heat transformers.
• Solar Energy: heating and cooling of buildings, solar air conditioning and dehumidification; heat storage; solar energy for industrial applications.
• Cryogenic Cooling: Stirling and Pulse Tube cryocoolers, Joule-Thomson systems, adsorption compressors

Guest Appointments

• Guest Researcher, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado (2005, 2007, 2010)
• Visiting Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2001)
• Senior Development Staff Member, Lockheed Martin Energy Systems, Oak Ridge, Tennessee (1995-96)
• Visiting Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee (1980-82,1983,1985-86,1990-94)
• Visiting Researcher, ME Dept., University of California, Irvine, (1987-89)
• Visiting Scientist, Physics Dept. Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany (1984,1987)
• Visiting Scientist, National Institute of Mechanical Engineering, CSIR, Pretoria, South Africa (1978)
• Staff Scientist, Avco Systems Division, Wilmington, MA, USA (1971-73)

Public Professional Activities

• Head, Energy Forum, the Samuel Neaman Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology (2005-present)
• Head, Energy Engineering Research Center, Faculty of ME, Technion (1975 1977, 2002-2007, 2008-2011)
• Head – Solar Energy Laboratory, Faculty of ME, Technion
• Head, Rechler Cryogenic Cooling Laboratory, Faculty of ME, Technion
• Dean, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (1997-2001)
• Member of Technion's Academic Development Committee (1997-99), Steering Committee (1990-93), Research Committee (1993-95), Senate representative to the Board of Governors (2000-2002)

Membership in Professional Societies

• ASME (Fellow)
• ASHRAE (Fellow)
• Cryogenic Society of America
• ISES; Member of the International Board of ISES and former Chairman of the Israeli Section
• ISHRAE/IMKAM

Honors and Awards

• ASME Frank Kreith Energy Award, (2017)
• Hershel Rich Innovation Award, Technion – IIT (2010)
• Russell B. Scott Memorial Award, Cryogenic Society of America (2009)
• Georg Alefeld Memorial Award for lifetime contribution to Absorption Heat Pump Technology (2008)
• Gen. Yakov Dori Memorial Prize on Technological Innovation (1993)
• Sherman Gilbert Chair in Energy (1992)
• British Royal Society Grant (1976)
• Gutwirth Research Award (1975)
• Hebrew Technical Institute Scholarship (1967-1970)
• Fulbright Grant (1967)