Janusz Kozinski, is a higher education leader, researcher and entrepreneur, and expert in

sustainable energy Energy is sustainable if it "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs". Most definitions of sustainable energy include considerations of environmental aspects such as green ...

systems and immune building concepts applied to public safety and security. He was the Founding President and Vice-Chancellor of the New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering in Hereford, UK, and the former Founding Dean of

York University York University (french: Université York), also known as YorkU or simply YU, is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's fourth-largest university, and it has approximately 55,700 students, 7,000 faculty and staf ...

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

Following his graduation from the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków, Poland, in 1986 with a Ph.D. in Heat Engineering & Environmental Protection, Kozinski attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and spent the majority of his academic career at McGill University, where he was a Sir William Dawson Scholar and Associate Vice-Principal of Research and International Relations.

Academia

Kozinski served briefly as Founding President and Vice-Chancellor of the New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering (NMITE) in Hereford, for the period 2017-2018. Kozinski conceived an original academic program and imagined a master plan for total fundraising and investment of £500 million. NMITE was positioned as an ‘incubator of new ideas’, with a focus 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

. The $250 million initiative is home to 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 A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which ...

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), located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States, is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent scholar ...

and the

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...

and has completed the Advanced Management & Leadership Program at

Oxford University Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the ...

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

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

. Kozinski is a member of the Board of Canadian Mining Innovation Council. Janusz Kozinski formerly wrote a column for the '' Huffington Post'' 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 Energy Lab, which focuses on comprehensive research in the areas of 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 fission nuclear chain reaction or nuclear fusion reactions. Nuclear reactors are used at nuclear power plants for electricity generation and in nuclear marine propulsion. Heat from nu ...

s, the environmental impact of energy technology,

greenhouse gas A greenhouse gas (GHG or GhG) is a gas that absorbs and emits radiant energy within the thermal infrared range, causing the greenhouse effect. The primary greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere are water vapor (), carbon dioxide (), met ...

mitigation, fabrication of

nanomaterials * Nanomaterials describe, in principle, 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-based approach to n ...

, public security in buildings vulnerable to bio-agents, and Mars exploration.

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

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