Gerald L. Kulcinski
Associate Dean for Research
College of Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Gerald L. Kulcinski has been the Associate Dean for Research for the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 2001. Dr. Kulcinski is also the Grainger Professor of Nuclear Engineering and the Director of the Fusion Technology Institute. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1993 and was awarded the NASA Public Service Medal in 1993. He has been a Fellow in the American Nuclear Society since 1978.
Professor Kulcinski worked on the Nuclear Rocket Program at Los Alamos in 1963 and conducted and directed research on the effects of radiation in metals while serving as a senior research scientist at the Battelle Northwest Laboratories from 1965 to 1971. From 1965 to 1971 he was a Lecturer at the Center for Graduate Study in Richland, Washington. Dr. Kulcinski joined the Nuclear Engineering Department at the University of Wisconsin in 1972. He was a visiting scientist at the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center in West Germany in 1977 and was on sabbatical leave at the Bechtel Corporation in San Francisco in 1989 and 1995.
He has been a member of the American Nuclear Society since 1961, Technical Program Chair of the 2nd ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Technology (1976), served on the ANS Board of Directors (1987-90), and was the General Chairman of the 16th ANS Topical meeting on Fusion Technology in 2004. In 1978, he received the Curtis W. McGraw Research Award by the Engineering Research Committee of the American Association of Engineering Education. In 1980, he received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Controlled Thermonuclear Division of the American Nuclear Society. He was a U.S. delegate to the International Tokamak Reactor (INTOR) Project in Vienna, Austria from 1979 to 1981. In 1984, he was appointed to the Grainger Chair of Nuclear Engineering at the University. He received the John Randle Grumman Achievement Award from the Grumman Aircraft Corporation in 1987. He was awarded the 1992 Leadership Award in Fusion by Fusion Power Associates. In 1993, he was elected to Phi Kappa Phi. In 1994, he was awarded the Distinguished Faculty Award by the Wisconsin Alumni Foundation and in 1995 he received the Wisconsin Big 10 Centennial Award. He was an Associate Editor of Fusion Engineering and Design from 1983-2003. Dr. Kulcinski has served on several review panels for the National Academy of Sciences, the Department of Energy, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratory, and Argonne National Laboratory in the United States as well as for the Karlsruhe Nuclear Laboratory in Germany and the Ontario Hydroelectric Utility in Canada. He was a member of the National Research Council Board on Energy and Environmental Systems from 2000 to 2005.
Dr. Kulcinski received his B.S. Chemical Engineering degree in 1961 and his Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Wisconsin in 1965. His current research interests lie with In-Situ Resource Utilization on the Moon and the development of clean, safe, and economical energy sources from space. He has published over 210 peer reviewed scientific articles, over 270 additional reports and articles in conference proceedings, and is a co-author or contributor to four books.
