Seminar

Challenges for Sustainable Aviation

Presenter:

Paul Papas (BSAE 1988)

RTX Technology Research Center

Thursday, March 14

11:00 a.m.

Food Processing Center

Dr. Paul Papas received a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1988, M.A. from Princeton University in 1990, and Ph.D. in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University in 1994.  From 1994-96, he was a National Research Council Fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory. From 1996-2004, he was a Senior Lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne Switzerland, and an Associate Professor at the Colorado School of Mines from 2004-2010.  Currently, Dr. Papas is an Associate Director at the RTX Technology Research Center.  Dr. Papas is a Fellow of the Combustion Institute, an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Chair of the Executive Board for the Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute (ESSCI), Chair of the Board of Directors of the US Sections of the Combustion Institute (USSCI), and member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE).  He has over 100 publications, patents, and conference papers in combustion-related areas, including flammability, fire safety and suppression, flame instabilities, and high-temperature fuel oxidation kinetics.