Jim Swithenbank教授，英国皇家工程院院士，1953年毕业于英国伯明翰大学核物理专业。1953-1958年在Rolls-Royce公司负责开发用于猎犬地对空导弹的冲压发动机。1958-1961年任加拿大麦克吉尔大学机械工程系教授，领导超燃冲压发动机研究。随后返回英国在谢菲尔德大学任教授至今，期间担任化工燃料技术系（现为化学过程工程系）系主任长达15年。

Swithenbank教授发表论文450多篇，发明专利20多项。与他人合作发明Malvern激光粒度分析仪，并因此两次获得女王奖。他领导并合作完成FLUENT流体计算软件的源程序代码，并因此获得多项国际奖项。

Swithenbank教授是能源动力工程、燃料燃烧气化、计算流体力学，废弃物焚烧及排放控制等方面的专家。曾担任英国能源学会主席，现任英国能源学会、化工学会资深会员，废弃物管理学会名誉资深会员，并在多个政府及国际机构中担任顾问。现为谢菲尔德大学退休教授，利兹大学客座教授，并继续领导谢菲尔德大学废弃物焚烧研究中心（SUWIC）的科研工作。

 

 

 

Fellow and Past President of the Institute of Energy, Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Waste Management, Emeritus Professor of Chemical and Process Engineering at the University of Sheffield, UK, and visiting Professor at the University of Leeds.  He also acts as advisor to a number of Government Panels and various international committees.

Professor Swithenbank’s first degree was in Nuclear Physics (Fist Class Honours, 1953) at Birmingham University.  He then worked for Rolls-Royce (Bristol Engine Division 1953-58) on ramjet engine development for the highly successful Bloodhound anti-aircraft missile.  After a brief period designing aircraft at Canadair, Montreal, Canada he transferred to a post as Professor of Mechanical Engineering at McGill University, Canada (1958-61), where he led the Hypersonic Air Breathing Engines (scramjet) research programme.  After returning to the UK, he became Professor of Fuel Technology at Sheffield University where he has remained ever since.  The name of the Department was progressively changed to Chemical and Process Engineering and he served as Head of Department for fifteen years. 

He is author of more than 450 papers published in scientific journals, and over 20 patents.  He has been awarded and managed a very large number of research grants.

In view of his unusually broad experience and expertise in Science and Engineering he regularly serves on Strategic or Executive Panels for EPSRC, NPL, DEFRA etc awarding several millions of pounds each. 

He is internationally pre-eminent as co-inventor of the Malvern laser diffraction particle/droplet sizing instrument that twice won the Queen’s Award for Export.  He is co-author of the FLUENT Computational Fluid Dynamic code that led to his International Award by the Finnish Prime Minister of the Ahlstrom Prize, plus several other International Awards by the AIAA, ASME, etc.  (The development of computational fluid dynamics, where FLUENT is the world market leader, is arguably one of the most significant developments in modern Engineering.  In recognition of the success of his activities in Combined Heat and Power for Sheffield City, Sheffield University was presented with the prestigious Queen's Award for Environmental Outreach.  

He is now Chairman of the SUWIC Energy and Environment Research Centre and together with Professor Sharifi, he currently leads several Sheffield University EPSRC funded research consortium programmes worth several million pounds: 1) Supergen Biomass; 2) Intrawise, Pollutants in the Built Environment; 3) Thermal Management in the Process Industry; 4) Sustained Urban Environment - Energy from Waste; 5) Hydrogen production by Chemical Looping (with China). 

He has particular expertise in: City-wide Combined Heat and Power, Power Generation Systems, Mathematical Modelling, Reacting Fluid Flow, Combustion, Gasification, Energy Recovery Systems, Waste Management and Recycling, Energy from Waste, Pollution Monitoring and Control, Organic and Inorganic Emissions (e.g. Dioxins and Heavy Metals), Energy from Biomass, Invention of Diagnostic Instruments, Ash Detoxification, Solid Propellant Rocket Technology, etc.