MIE Professor Andreas Mandelis is the recipient of the 2009 Yeram S. Touloukian Award, bestowed triennially by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) to recognize outstanding technical contributions in the field of thermophysical properties.

Professor Mandelis was honoured “for his seminal theoretical work in the shaping of thermal-wave sciences and associated thermophysical instrumentation and measurement technologies, including the physics and mathematics of thermal waves, depth--profilometry, imaging and the inverse problem; and for his pioneering experimental work introducing ultrasensitive analytical techniques, photopyroelectic sensors, the thermal-wave resonant cavity and biothermophotonics.”

"We are pleased and proud that ASME has honoured Professor Mandelis for his wide-reaching accomplishments in the field of thermophysical properties. He is an exceptional researcher who has pioneered an extraordinarily diverse range of disciplines," said Cristina Amon, Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering.

He is a pioneer in the development, shaping and applications of diffusion-wave sciences and associated technologies. Over the past 30 years, his wide-ranging research has helped define the discipline, and extended its range to practical uses in materials research, industrial process quality control, dental caries diagnosis and soft tissue imaging.

Professor Mandelis co-developed photopyroelectric spectroscopy, a thermal wave technique that is now a standard used worldwide in research and practical applications such as food science, semiconductor properties, material science and agricultural and environmental monitoring. He also pioneered the Thermal-Wave Resonant Cavity, which scientists now use to gain new insights into molecular thermophysics, kinetic theory and the infrared emissivity of fluids.

Mandelis is the Director of the Centre for Advanced Diffusion-Wave Technologies (CADIFT) at the University of Toronto. He is the author of more than 260 scientific papers in refereed journals and the acclaimed textbook Diffusion-Wave Fields: Mathematical Methods and Green Functions. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the book series Progress in Photothermal and Photoacoustic Science and Technology.

In 2006 Professor Mandelis was elected Fellow in the Academy of Sciences of The Royal Society of Canada, Canada’s highest honour for scientists. He is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Society for Optical Engineering. In 2007 he was the inaugural recipient of the Premier’s Discovery Award in Natural Sciences and Engineering.

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