Location Sweden, South Carolina, United States Regions East Coast, Southern US Gender Male
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Torsten H. Fransson graduated from the University of Lund, Sweden, and with a PhD from Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne, Switzerland.Prof. Fransson has fulfilled several educational, research and society roles and acted as member of board to a number of high level educational institutes across Europe. Since 1991 he has been the Chair of the Heat
and Power Technology Division of KTH University, one of Europe’s top technical universities. He also headed the KTH Energy Centre between 2000 and 2004 and the KTH School of Energy and Environmental Technology from 2005 to 2008.
Prof. Fransson was elected for a number of consecutive terms to the Board of Directors of the International Gas Turbine Institute, Atlanta, USA. He has been a member of the “Council for Industrial Cooperation” of the Swedish Emergency Agency Management and was Vice Chair of the Fluid Machinery section of the Swedish Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Swiss Chapter of Sigma Xi, amongst others, and International Program Director for several ASME conferences. Prof. Fransson received the French “National Order of Merit” in 2002, the “ASME Dedicated Service Award” in 2003. He has been Visiting Professor at Duke University and Florida State University.
Prof. Fransson’s research interests span over aerodynamics in turbo machines, gasification and combustion and modern pedagogical interactive models for global energy learning. He has published more than 200 scientific papers together with various co-researchers. He has participated in several EU-sponsored research projects over the years, and has prepared, started and installed several Master´s programmes in energy education in Europe, and is a regular member in international Scientific Societies/conferences.Prof. Fransson has been the Education Director of KIC InnoEnergy since 2010.
