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Arizona State University
Harindra J.S. Fernando received his B.S. in mechanical engineering (with first class honors) from the University of Sri Lanka in 1979 and M.A. (1982) and Ph.D. (1983) in fluid mechanics from the Johns Hopkins University. He received post-doctoral training in environmental engineering sciences at Caltech during 1983-84. Since 1984, he has been affiliated with the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department of Arizona State University (ASU), where he has held positions of Assistant Professor (1984-87), Associate Professor (88-92) and Professor (92-). Currently, he is the Director of the Environmental Fluid Dynamics Program at ASU. He has also held visiting professorships at the University of Cambridge (UK), ETH (Zurich), Tel Aviv University (Israel) and University of Girona (Spain) and has been an AWU fellow at the Solar Energy Research Institute (1987-89) and a visiting scientist at the British Meteorological Office (Summers 1991-1996). He is a recipient of the Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1986 (NSF), ASU Alumni Distinguished Research Award in 1997 and Rieger Distinguish Scholar Award in Environmental Sciences from Rieger Foundation for 2001. He is a fellow of the ASME. He has delivered more than seventy invited presentations at various universities and national and international laboratories.
His research interests span geophysical turbulence (turbulence in rotating and stratified fluids), turbulent dispersion, multi-phase flows, double diffusive phenomena, internal waves and turbulent jets and plumes. More recently his research focus has shifted to urban environmental issues, especially urban air pollution. He has authored or co-authored more than one hundred and twenty five papers in international journals and has published more than one hundred papers in national and international conference proceedings. Further, he has presented more than one hundred papers at various conferences and co-edited an AGU monograph on double-diffusive convection.
He has served on numerous national and international committees, some recent assignments being the NSF Graduate Fellowship Panel (1996-1999), NSF Career Panel (1999), Scientific Committee for Ocean Research (SCOR) Working Group on Double Diffusion (Co-Chair, 1999), AMS Committee on Air Pollution (2000-2003) and Chemical and Biological Security Panel (DOE, 2002). He serves on the editorial boards of Applied Mechanics Reviews (Associate and Technical Editor, 1989-), Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics (Editor, 1997-), Advances in Fluid Mechanics Series (Associate Editor, 2000-) and Environmental Fluid Dynamics (Associate Editor, 2000- ).
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