Dr. José Vargas

Dr. José Vargas

Dr. José Vargas has been on the faculty at Federal University of Parané, UFPR, in Curitiba, Brazil since 1996. He has served as Vice-Coordinator of the UFPR Engineering Graduate Program, PIPE, from 1999 to 2003. He develops research in Energy and Thermal Sciences (e.g., fuel cells, refrigeration, power and cogeneration systems, FCC reactors, aircraft environmental control systems) and Biomedical Engineering (e.g., infrared imaging diagnosys, hypothermia, mechanical ventilation), in the basic areas of thermodynamics, experimental and computational fluid dynamics, heat and mass transfer.

Prof. Vargas’ group at UFPR has been developing models for alkaline and PEMFC's since 2000, in association with Duke University and the Center for Advanced Power Systems at Florida State University. Dr. Vargas has a PhD degree from Duke University in 1994, supervised 10 masters Dissertations and 6 doctoral Theses, published more than 50 scientific articles in internationally scientifically indexed periodicals, and more than 80 articles in international conferences. Currently, he supervises 12 masters and doctoral students. He has 2 patents registered in 1989 and in 2006. He has been a member of ASME since 1995.