James Klausner

About James Klausner

Dr. James Klausner is a Co-Founder of RedoxBlox and Executive Chairman. He is also Professor at Michigan State University and formerly Director of Fraunhofer USA Midwest, formerly Dean of Engineering at the UAE University (20•••••20) and is formerly an MSU Foundation Professor and Mechanical Engineering Department Chair at Michigan State University (20••••21). He formerly served as Chair of the ASME Heat Transfer Division (20••••12). He serves on the board of directors for the American Society of Thermal Fluid Engineers and the International Titanium Association Foundation. For three and a half years he served as a Program Director at the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). Prior to that he held the Newton C. Ebaugh Professorship in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida (19••••15). He received his Ph.D. degree in 1989 from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has made substantial fundamental contributions to understanding the dynamics of boiling heat transfer systems. He has made many fundamental and applied research contributions in high temperature thermochemistry, waste heat and solar driven desalination, and high heat flux phase-change heat transfer. Dr. Klausner has authored more than 150 refereed publications and is the author of more than ten patents and four provisional patents. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Society of Thermal Fluid Engineers. He is a recipient of the ASME Heat Transfer Division Memorial Award and the 75th Anniversary Award.

Experience

1. Chief Technology Officer

   Redoxblox

   Nov 2024 — Present

Education

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering

  1986 — 1989

• United States Merchant Marine Academy

  Marine Engineering

  1980 — 1984

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Master's degree, Engineering

  1984 — 1986