Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc

Professor and Associate Head of Graduate Studies, Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering

Upon graduating from Bucharest University, Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc spent several months as a research assistant for The Institute of Physics and Technology of Radiation Devices, also located in Bucharest. He joined Duke University's Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science for over a year as a graduate student research assistant before beginning work on his doctorate at UCLA (PhD 2000). Dr. Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc has started his academic career in 2001 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and since 2013 he is a full professor. He is the director of the Nanoscale Thermophysics and Energy Conversion Laboratory (NanoTEC) on the Rensselaer campus. He received the NSF CAREER award (2004), is an associate editor for the Journal of Nanomaterials, a member of the ASME's K8 committee on Fundamentals of Heat Transfer, and an invited member of the nascent ASME's K-9 committee on Nanoscale Thermal Transport. He has organized and chaired symposia and sessions on nanoscale thermal transport and energy conversion with ASME and MRS.