Ahmed Badruzzaman

Ahmed Badruzzaman is a Bangladesh-born American energy scientist with contributions in research, development, and deployment of nuclear, petroleum technologies, and small energy systems suitable for developing countries via a 45 year journey through several U.S. R&D and educational institutions.  He earned a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering and Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY in 1979.

After his retirement from industrial research in 2012, Dr. Badruzzaman has focused in exploring novel nuclear techniques to probe the subsurface to support the low-carbon energy transition underway. He is also educating the younger generations on this transition, necessary to mitigate climate change. On the former, he is also an SME consultant to the US Department of Energy. On the latter, he has been teaching the course, Energy and Civilization, he and his two co-instructors developed at University of California, Berkeley in 2016.

Dr. Badruzzaman is an author of over 50 papers, two US patents, and an upcoming textbook on nuclear technologies. He is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society, and a recipient of several technical awards from professional societies. He served as an Editor of the technical journal, Petrophysics. A proponent of technology transfer, he has spoken on his research around the globe and was a two-time Distinguished Lecturer/Speaker of both the Soc. of Petrol. Engrs. and the Soc. of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts. He was a consultant to the International Atomic Energy Agency during 2011-2012 and an official reviewer of two US National Academy of Sciences’ reports, one in 2008 and the other in 2020. He chairs the energy panel of Bangladesh Environmental Network (BEN) a diaspora organization  dedicated to limiting environmental degradation in their native country.

A strong supporter of the Bangla language initiative at UC Berkeley, Ahmed led the fundraiser that helped endow the program in 2013.  During 2014-2015, he served on the first Advisory Board of the Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies at the Institute of South Asia Studies at Berkeley. A strong exponent of Diversity and Inclusion during his corporate tenure, he had founded Chevron’s Asian Employee Network and headed it for over ten years.