Coimbra Research Group

About Us

We are a multidisciplinary research group headed by Professor Carlos F. M. Coimbra. Prof. Coimbra received his Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of California Irvine (UCI) after graduating in both Mechanical Engineering and Physics from the University of Brasilia, and receiving a Masters of Science degree in Applied Thermodynamics/Energy from the IST/University of Lisbon. Prof. Coimbra is also associated with the Center for Energy Research (CER), which is one of the largest Organized Research Units (ORUs) at UCSD. Prof. Coimbra has published over 100 journal papers on various topics related to solar energy, heat and mass transfer, stochastic forecasting, energy meteorology, atmospheric physics, unsteady multiphase flows, and nonlinear dynamics. He is the co-author (with Prof. Anthony F. Mills from UCLA) of a popular series of textbooks on Heat and Mass Transfer, a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and a life member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

Selected Journal Editorship

2019-2024 Editor-in-Chief of AIPP’s Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy
2012-2015 Editorial Board Member of Elsevier’s Progress in Energy and Combustion Science
2015-2018 Associate Editor for Solar Integration of the ASME Journal of Solar Energy Engineering
2015-2018 Associate Editor for Solar Forecasting of Elsevier’s Solar Energy journal (the official research journal of the International Solar Energy Society)
2015-2018 Editorial Board Member of Elsevier’s Renewable Energy (the official journal of the World Renewable Energy Network, affiliated with UNESCO) for the general area of Energy Meteorology
2016-2018 Editorial Board Member of Nature’s Scientific Reports for the general area of Atmospheric Radiation