Janusz Kozinski is a Canadian academic and engineer in

sustainable energy Energy system, Energy is sustainability, sustainable if it "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." Definitions of sustainable energy usually look at its effects on the e ...

systems and building concepts for public safety and security. He served as the Founding President and Vice-Chancellor of the New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering in

Hereford Hereford ( ) is a cathedral city and the county town of the ceremonial county of Herefordshire, England. It is on the banks of the River Wye and lies east of the border with Wales, north-west of Gloucester and south-west of Worcester. With ...

, UK, and served as Founding Dean of

Lassonde School of Engineering The Lassonde School of Engineering is the professional engineering school of York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Lassonde incorporates crossover programming with York University’s Schulich School of Business and Osgoode Hall Law S ...

Education

Kozinski graduated in 1986 from the

AGH University of Science and Technology AGH University of Krakow, (abbreviated as ''AGH University''; formerly: AGH University of Science and Technology or ''AGH UST'') is a public university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1913, its inauguration took place in 1919. The university foc ...

Kraków , officially the Royal Capital City of Kraków, is the List of cities and towns in Poland, second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city has a population of 804,237 ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

, with a PhD in Heat Engineering & Environmental Protection. He then attended the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

(MIT) and spent the majority of his academic career at

McGill University McGill University (French: Université McGill) is an English-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill University, Vol. I. For the Advancement of Learning, ...

, where he was a Sir William Dawson Scholar and Associate Vice-Principal of Research and International Relations.

Academia

Kozinski served as Founding President and Vice-Chancellor of the New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering (NMITE) in Hereford from 2017 to 2018. NMITE aimed to be an ‘incubator of new ideas’, focused on graduating employment-ready, industry relevant, culturally intelligent, creative, ethically aware and financially literate young people. NMITE welcomed its first students in September 2021. Prior to his position at Hereford, Kozinski served as Founding Dean of the

York University York University (), also known as YorkU or simply YU), is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university, and it has approximately 53,500 students, 7,000 faculty and staff, ...

. The $250 million initiative houses the Renaissance Engineering program. Renaissance engineering is a curricular philosophy that includes interdisciplinary learning, industry collaboration and designing for positive social impact. Kozinski was also formerly Dean of the College of Engineering at

University of Saskatchewan The University of Saskatchewan (U of S, or USask) is a Universities in Canada, Canadian public university, public research university, founded on March 19, 1907, and located on the east side of the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon, Saskatch ...

and Dean of the Faculty of Science and Engineering at

. Kozinski held the International Chair in Bioenergy at the

Institute for Advanced Studies The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry located in Princeton, New Jersey. It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent scholars, including Albert Ein ...

and the

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 eng ...

and has completed the Advanced Management & Leadership Program at

Oxford University The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the second-oldest continuously operating u ...

and the Executive Education Program, Crisis Leadership in Higher Education, at

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

. Kozinski is a member of the Board of Canadian Mining Innovation Council. Janusz Kozinski formerly wrote a column for the ''

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'' Canada before its closure.

Research

Kozinski has led research teams and programs relating to energy, environmental, public health, and security issues. At Lassonde School of Engineering, Kozinski leads the Energy Lab, which focuses on research in energy generation, conversion, analysis, kinetics and management. Kozinski's research includes projects related to the next generation of

nuclear reactor A nuclear reactor is a device used to initiate and control a Nuclear fission, fission nuclear chain reaction. They are used for Nuclear power, commercial electricity, nuclear marine propulsion, marine propulsion, Weapons-grade plutonium, weapons ...

s, the environmental impact of energy technology,

greenhouse gas Greenhouse gases (GHGs) are the gases in the atmosphere that raise the surface temperature of planets such as the Earth. Unlike other gases, greenhouse gases absorb the radiations that a planet emits, resulting in the greenhouse effect. T ...

mitigation, fabrication of

nanomaterials Nanomaterials describe, in principle, chemical substances or materials of which a single unit is sized (in at least one dimension) between 1 and 100 nm (the usual definition of nanoscale). Nanomaterials research takes a materials science ...

, public security in buildings vulnerable to bio-agents.

Selected works

*Farooq, U., Kozinski, J. A., Khan, M. A., & Athar, M. (2010). Biosorption of heavy metal ions using wheat based biosorbents–a review of the recent literature. Bioresource Technology, 101(14), 5043-5053 *Fang, Z., Sato, T., Smith, R. L., Inomata, H., Arai, K., & Kozinski, J. A. (2008). Reaction chemistry and phase behavior of lignin in high-temperature and supercritical water. Bioresource Technology, 99(9), 3424-3430. *Farooq, U., Khan, M. A., Athar, M., & Kozinski, J. A. (2011). Effect of modification of environmentally friendly biosorbent wheat (Triticum aestivum) on the biosorptive removal of cadmium (II) ions from aqueous solution. Chemical Engineering Journal, 171(2), 400-410. *Koziński, J. A., & Saade, R. (1998). Effect of biomass burning on the formation of soot particles and heavy hydrocarbons. An experimental study. Fuel, 77(4), 225-237.

References

External links

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