About Professor Robert H. B. Exell

I was born in England in 1933, and was educated at King's College School, Wimbledon. I joined the Royal Air Force for my national service in 1952 and was trained as an air navigator. In 1954 I entered Magdalen College, Oxford and studied physics. I obtained my doctor degree in 1962 for research in low temperature physics at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford.

In 1962 I came to Thailand and taught mathematics and physics at Chulalongkorn University for ten years.

In 1972 I moved to the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). There I was Associate Director of the Regional Energy Resources Information Center (1978 to 1993), Dean of Student Affairs (1988 to 1993), and Chairman of the Division of Energy Technology (1991 to 1993). My research was mostly in solar energy. I retired in 1993, and I am now an Emeritus Professor of AIT.

Since retiring from AIT I have remained profesionally active. I joined King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Thonburi as a professor in 1994. I was in the Department of Mathematics from 1994 to 2008, and since 2000 I have been in the Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment (JGSEE).

I did part-time work, serving as a consultant to the Cellennium (Thailand) Company Limited in a project on the development of vanadium redox flow batteries for energy storage and conversion from 1999 to 2008, and teaching research methodology at the Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology (SIIT), Thammasat University, from 1998 to 2010.

In 1993 I was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Science in Applied Mathematics by King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Thonburi -- now renamed King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT).

In 2009 I received a Thammasat HR International Award from the Human Resources Institute Thammasart University for contributions through teaching and research to human resource development in Thailand.

I have now retired from supervising student research, but still teach coursework and keep up my interest in a new formulation of macroscopic thermodynamics and a simple model of mesoscale processes in the tropical atmosphere.

Bangkok, 2016