1st Edition
The Sustainability Conundrum Balancing Energy Transition and Global Development
1. Global Energy Demand and Supply. 2. Environmental Effects of Energy Consumption. 3. Climate Change Mitigation Approaches. 4. Sustainability Goals and Cost of Decarbonization. 5. The Sustainability Conundrum.
Biography
Efstathios E. Michaelides is the Tex Moncrief Chair of Engineering at Texas Christian University (TCU), USA. Among his previous positions, he was the Founder and Director of the NSF‑supported Center on Simulation, Visualization and Real Time Computing (SiViRT) at the University of Texas, San Antonio and the director of the South‑Central Center of the National Institute for Global Environmental Change (2002–2007) at Tulane University. Professor Michaelides holds a B.A. degree (honors) from Oxford University, UK and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Brown University, USA. He has published more than 200 journal papers; has contributed more than 350 papers and presentations in national and international conferences; and has authored 9 books on energy, the environment, and multiphase flow. Among other honors he has received the ASME Fluids Engineering Award (2014), and the ASME James Harry Potter Medal (2024) “for eminent contributions in the science of Thermodynamics.” Professor Michaelides is currently a fellow of ASME and the ASTFE.
