Per F. Peterson: Curriculum Vitae



Degrees

Ph.D. (1988) University of California, Berkeley.
MSME (1986) University of California, Berkeley.
BSME (1982) University of Nevada, Reno.

Professional Experience

7/00- Chair - Nuclear Engineering Department, U.C. Berkeley
7/98- Professor - Nuclear Engineering Department, U.C. Berkeley
Research and teaching in heat and mass transfer, multi-phase/multi-component flows, thermal hydraulics, and nuclear materials management.

7/98-8/00 Chair - Energy and Resources Group

7/94-6/98 Associate Professor - Nuclear Engineering Department, U.C. Berkeley

6/90-6/94 Assistant Professor - Nuclear Engineering Department, U.C. Berkeley

6/89-5/90 JSPS Fellow - Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow.

9/88-5/89 Assistant Specialist - Mechanical Engineering Department, U.C. Irvine.
Heat transfer research and teaching.

6/88-8/88 Guest Researcher - Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Research on reflux thermosyphons with multi-species mixtures.

8/85-5/88 Research Assistant - Mechanical Engineering Department, U.C. Berkeley.
Doctoral research with Professor C.L. Tien in area of heat and mass transfer in condensing systems.

5/82-6/85 Engineer - Bechtel National, Inc., San Francisco, California
Design of systems for processing (vitrifying) high-level nuclear waste for the Defense Waste Processing Facility.

Honors and Awards


Per F. Peterson
peterson@nuc.berkeley.edu