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Cristina Amon

Professor

Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

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  • Professor
    Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

BIO

Cristina Amon is a mechanical engineer, University Professor, Alumni Distinguished Professor and the first female Dean of the University of Toronto Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering.

Professor Amon is a pioneer in the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics and the development of multidisciplinary multi-scale hierarchical modelling. She has worked on concurrent thermal designs, electronics cooling and transient thermal management of wearable computers, power electronics and batteries in electric vehicles.

In 2006, she was appointed as Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering and Alumni Chair Professor in Bioengineering in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto.

Her research was recognized with a myriad of awards. She is a life fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and American Society of Mechanical Engineers. She is a fellow of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, American Society for Engineering Education, and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. In addition, she was awarded the George Westinghouse, Ralph Coats Roe Awards, the Sir John Kennedy Medal and CSME Robert W. Angus Medal. She was recognized as one of Canada’s Most Influential Women in 2012, received the Engineers Canada Award for the Support of Women, was named one of the YWCA’s Women of Distinction, and received the highest honor for Engineers in Canada (2020 Engineers Canada Gold Medal) and in Ontario (2015 Ontario Professional Engineers Gold Medal) for outstanding engineering public service, technical excellence and professional leadership. She was appointed to the Order of Canada and inducted into the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Hispanic Engineer Hall of Fame, Royal Society of Canada, Spanish Royal Academy and U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE).

During her accomplished career, Professor Amon has promoted diversity within the engineering profession. She was the opening speaker at the Women in Science and Engineering 2017 National Conference and contributed to the record-high female enrolment in the first-year cohort at U of T Engineering at 40.1% in 2016 as the Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering.

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Raymond J. Lane Distinguished Professor and Director of the Institute for Complex Engineered
    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States1988 - 2006
  • Dean at Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering
    University of Toronto, Toronto, CanadaJul 2006 - Jul 2019
  • Distinguished Professor, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
    University of Toronto, Toronto, CanadaJul 2006 - present

DEGREES

  • MSc and DSc
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States1983 - 1988
  • Engineering Degree
    Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela1976 - 1981

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Professional Engineer
    Professional Engineers Ontario, Toronto, Canada

INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

  • Climate Positive Energy (CPE)
  • Medicine by Design (MbD)