Overview
Professor Bejan was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal 2018 and the Humboldt Research Award 2019. His research covers engineering science and applied physics: thermodynamics, heat transfer, convection, design, and evolution in nature.
He is ranked among the top 0.01% of the most cited and impactful world scientists (and top 10 in Engineering world wide) in the 2019 citations impact database created by Stanford University’s John Ioannidis, in PLoS Biology. He is the author of 30 books and 700 peer-referred articles. His h-index is 111 with 92,000 citations on Google Scholar. He received 18 honorary doctorates from universities in 11 countries.
He is ranked among the top 0.01% of the most cited and impactful world scientists (and top 10 in Engineering world wide) in the 2019 citations impact database created by Stanford University’s John Ioannidis, in PLoS Biology. He is the author of 30 books and 700 peer-referred articles. His h-index is 111 with 92,000 citations on Google Scholar. He received 18 honorary doctorates from universities in 11 countries.
Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations
J.A. Jones Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering
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1989 - Present
Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science,
Pratt School of Engineering
Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
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1984 - Present
Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science,
Pratt School of Engineering
Recent Scholarly Works
Professor Ricardo Martinez-Botas on his 60th birthday
Journal article International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer · June 1, 2026 Full text CiteThe need for an evolution of credit attribution in modern scientific publishing
Journal article F1000Research · April 15, 2026 Modern scientific publishing struggles to give proper credit to the true originators of ideas. Plagiarism, deliberate or inadvertent, undermines academic integrity, while systemic pressures such as “publish or perish,” paper mills, guest authorship, ... Full text CiteShaken, not stirred, mixing evolves to order.
Journal article Bio Systems · April 2026 This article uses two examples of mixing to demonstrate why the constructal law and the second law are distinct, self-standing laws. It begins with the definitions of two distinct phenomena: irreversibility versus design in nature (form in motion, configur ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
Constructal Theory for Aeroelastic Design of Aircraft
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Florida International University · 2023 - 2026Simulation Tools for 3D and 4D CT and Dosimetry
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2007 - 2025Optimization of Multiscale Geometries for Novel Heat Exchangers for Geothermal Power Plants
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Oak Ridge National Laboratory · 2014 - 2016View All Grants
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ·
1975
Sc.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ·
1972
S.B.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ·
1972
Sc.M.