Dr. Suresh V. Garimella Age 62 Director since 2011 Current Position: President, University of Arizona. Dr. Garimella serves as the 23rd President of the University of Arizona and Distinguished Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, positions he assumed in October 2024. Dr. Garimella has made seminal contributions in electronics thermal management and energy efficiency and in sustainable energy systems technology and policy. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. He has served as a member of the National Science Board, and also chairs the research advisory board of Sandia National Laboratories. He was recently appointed to the Office of Science Advisory Committee for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and chairs its Genesis Mission subcommittee. Dr. Garimella came to Arizona after serving as President of the University of Vermont from 2019 to 2024. Prior to that, he was Goodson Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Executive Vice President for Research and Partnerships, and Director of the Cooling Technologies Research Center (1999 to 2019) at Purdue University. Dr. Garimella received his Bachelor of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, his Master of Science from The Ohio State University, and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, all in Mechanical Engineering.