RobynÌýMacdonald

  • Assistant Professor
  • AEROSPACE MECHANICS RESEARCH CENTER (AMREC)
Address

Office Location: AERO 359

Focus Area

Fluids, Structures and Materials

Education

PhD, Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019
BS, Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013

Professional Experience

2021 - Present, Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Â鶹ӰԺ
2020, Visiting Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Â鶹ӰԺ
2019 - 2020, Postdoctoral Associate, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota
2013 - 2019, Research Associate, Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Awards (selected)

NASA Early Career Faculty Fellow, 2023
Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Research Program Fellow, 2021
President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, University of Minnesota, 2019-2020
AE Faculty Outstanding Graduate Student Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, 2015-2018

Research Interests

Hypersonic flows, computation of chemically reacting flows, chemical kinetics, radiation modeling
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