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Feridun Hamdullahpur is a university administrator and engineer, who served as the University of Waterloo's sixth President and Vice-Chancellor from 2010-2021. His areas of focus as a researcher and supervisor include energy conversion, thermo-fluids and bio-mass gasification and combustion. In 2021 Hamdullahpur was announced as the inaugural Chancellor of the International Business University in Toronto, Ontario.
Born in Turkey, he completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Istanbul and completed a Ph.D. in chemical engineering at the Technical University of Nova Scotia in Halifax. Prior to joining Waterloo, Hamdullahpur held various administrative positions at Carleton University in Ottawa, where he served as Provost and Vice President Academic (2006-2009) and Vice President Research and International (2000-2006), and at DalTech, where he served as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies (1993-95) and Dean of Graduate Studies and Research (1995-97). He was appointed Provost and Vice-President, Academic at Waterloo in September 2009.
In 2013, Hamdullahpur was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in acknowledgment of Professor Hamdullahpur’s leadership in education and innovation and in 2018 he was named a Specially Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In recognition of groundbreaking research in mechanical and mechatronics engineering and his visionary leadership in academia, he was appointed as a member of the Order of an Canada on December 29, 2022.
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Created July 2024 by DR.
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- Feridun Hamdullahpur - Wikipedia
- President emeritus and distinguished alum named to Order of Canada. Waterloo News. January 4, 2023.