Dr. James Cotton is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Co-Director of the McMaster Institute for Energy Studies (MIES). Dr. Cotton’s research focuses on developing energy systems and technologies to advance safe and efficient thermal management solutions, integrated energy systems, and nuclear energy harvesting technologies. Dr. Cotton’s research and industry experience involves nearly all aspects of the energy network, ranging from improving hybrid and electric vehicle performance, integrated community energy systems, and waste heat recovery from commercial and industrial processes to experimental and system modeling research on CANDU and Micro Modular Reactor (MMR) sub-systems and components.