Seth Dworkin

Dr. Seth Dworkin is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Toronto Metropolitan University. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Energy Modelling and Simulation. After completing a Bachelor’s degree at McMaster University, he pursued a combined Masters and PhD at Yale University, focusing on Computational Fluid Dynamics and combustion. Dr. Dworkin returned to Canada in 2009, taking a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Toronto. He then joined the faculty at Toronto Metropolitan University in 2011, where he has trained more than 40 graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, and published more than 65 peer-reviewed journal papers in the areas of combustion simulation, soot formation, and other sustainable energy technologies. Dr. Dworkin has received numerous awards for his research, including the 2013 Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering “I. W. Smith Award,” and the 2015 Professional Engineers of Ontario, Young Engineer’s Medal. In 2019, Dr. Dworkin was named a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, recognizing his career research achievements.