Leonid Tartakovsky

Education

• 1986 – D.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Central Automobile and Automotive Engines Research Institute (NAMI), Moscow, USSR
• 1980 – M.Sc. (Summa Cum Laude), Mechanical Engineering, Moscow Automotive Mechanical Institute, USSR

Research Interests

• Thermofluids
• Energy conversion in hybrid cycles involving combustion
• Waste heat recovery in electric, hybrid and motor vehicles
• Thermochemical recuperation
• Combustion in Internal Combustion Engines
• UAV propulsion
• Sustainable fuels
• Fuel-air mixing
• Pollutants formation and emissions control

Guest Appointments

• 2003 – Visiting Scientist, Environmental Studies & Testing Laboratory, TNO Automotive, Delft, the Netherlands

Public Professional Activities

Editor

• 2021-present: Associate Editor, Frontiers in Aerospace Engineering – Energetics and Propulsion. Publisher – Frontiers
• 2020-present: Handling Editor, Non-event SAE Technical Papers. Publisher – SAE International
• 2020-2021: Guest Editor, Special Issue on Recent Advances in Internal Combustion Engines, Energies. Publisher – MDPI.
• 2018: Guest Editor, Special Issue on UAV Propulsion, Drones. Publisher – MDPI.
• 2017: Associate Editor, SAE International Journal of Fuels and Lubricants. Publisher – SAE International
• 2016-present: Associate Editor, SAE International Journal of Engines. Publisher – SAE International

Editorial Board

• Editorial Board member of five professional journals.

Public professional committees (recent appointments)

• 2024-2025: Member, Executive Committee, International Society for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (ISEES)
• 2022: External referee, Habilitation committee in the academic subject of “Applied Thermodynamics”, Graz University of Technology (Senate appointment)
• 2022: Member, External Evaluation Committee for the evaluation process of higher education in Automotive Engineering, The Cyprus Agency of Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Higher Education
• 2022-present: Member, SAE Technical Committee, Small Powertrains and Energy Systems Technology, SAE International
• 2022: Member, Evaluation Committee for the “Clean Technol. 2020 Best Paper Awards”
• 2021: Foreign Member, Board of Examiners of the PhD thesis, University of Salento, Italy
• 2018-present: Member, Thermal Management Activity Committee, SAE International
• 2018-present: Member, SAE Engine Combustion Committee, SAE International
• 2017: Foreign Member, Board of Examiners of the PhD thesis, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India
• 2017-present: Member, Central Committee 6300 on Vehicles, the Standards Institution of Israel
• 2017-2018: Member, Executive Committee, SAE Powertrain, Fuels & Lubricants Activity, SAE International
• 2016-2018: Chairman, SAE Committee on New Engines, Components, Actuators and Sensors, SAE International

Membership in Professional Societies

• SAE International
• ASME – American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• IAHE – International Association of Hydrogen Energy
• ISEES – International Society for Energy, Environment and Sustainability

Fellowships, Awards and Honors

• 2023: ISEES Fellow, for outstanding contribution to the science of hydrogen combustion in internal combustion engines
• 2021: Best Poster Award (1st prize) at the 35th Annual Symposium of the Israeli Section of the Combustion Institute for the research “Multi-stage heat release of polyoxymethylene dimethyl ether 1 (PODE1)”, Tel-Aviv, December 02, 2021 (together with D. Buntin)
• 2021: GTEP Grant for Article Publication in the Best Professional Journals in Energy, Technion (for the article “Experimental comparison of performance and emissions of a direct-injection engine fed with alternative gaseous fuels” published in Energy Conversion and Management, 2022, 251, 114988)
• 2019: Best Poster Award (1st prize) at the 33rd Symposium of the Israeli Section of the Combustion Institute for the research “Reforming-controlled compression ignition with OME1”, Tel-Aviv, December 26, 2019 (together with D. Buntin)
• 2019: SAE Top Contributor (inaugural Top Contributors class, 48 people from around the world were selected, of whom only 4 were from outside the US)
• 2018: SAE Forest R. McFarland Award for outstanding key contribution to SAE/JSAE Small Engine Technology Conference
• 2018: Certificate for outstanding service to SAE as Chair, New Engines, Components, Actuators and Sensors Committee 2016-2018‎
• 2017: Best Poster Award (3rd place) at the 21st International Conference on Combustion Generated Nanoparticles for the research “A comparative analysis of ultrafine particles air pollution inside diesel-propelled trains and intercity buses”, ETH, Zurich, June 19-22 (together with V. Abramesko, J. Czerwinski and A. Mayer)
• 2016: Certificate for distinguished service to SAE as Chair, Small Engine Technology Conference Technical Committee 2014-2016‎
• 2016: SAE Fellow, SAE International
• 2015-2018: Outstanding Reviewer, Citation, Elsevier:
  Energy – 2015, 2017; Fuel – 2016; Environmental Pollution – 2017; Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science – 2018; Chemical Engineering Science – 2018; Applied Thermal Engineering – 2018; Energy Conversion and Management – 2018; International Journal of Hydrogen Energy – 2018
• 2014: Uzi & Michal Halevy Grant for Innovative Applied Engineering Research, Technion
• 2010: 2012, 2013, 2016: Excellence in Teaching, Citation, Technion
• 1998: Science on Service of Environment – Leading Research Projects in the field. Israeli Ministry of Environment, Special Jubilee edition of selected studies (together with Y. Zvirin, M. Gutman, E. Golgotiu, Y. Aleinikov)