Dr. Adam Steinberg

Biography

Adam Steinberg is the Pratt & Whitney Chair Professor in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech, with an adjunct appointment in the School of Mechanical Engineering. He serves as Secretary Faculty in a leadership role within Georgia Tech’s faculty governance. Previously, he was the Associate Chair for Graduate Programs in the Aerospace Engineering School. Before joining Georgia Tech, he was a faculty member at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies from 2011 to 2018 and worked as a research scientist at the German Aerospace Center between 2009 and 2011. He is the director of the Ben T. Zinn Combustion Laboratory, which is one of the largest academic combustion research facilities in the world. His research focuses on overcoming scientific and technical barriers in aerospace propulsion and energy conversion devices, working closely with government and industry. His research group develops and applies advanced laser-based measurement techniques to explore the coupled thermal, fluid, and chemical processes in these devices, with interests in laser-based diagnostics, combustion, gas turbine engines, supersonic and hypersonic propulsion, chemical rockets, detonations, space electric propulsion, and multi-phase flows.

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