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Yiguang Ju received his bachelor’s degree in Engineering Thermophysics from Tsinghua University in 1986 and earned a PhD in Mechanical Aerospace Engineering from Tohoku University in 1994. He is the Robert Porter Patterson Professor in Mechanical Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University and served as the Director of the DOE Energy Earthshot Research Center (EERC) focusing on Hydrogen. Prof. Ju’s primary research interests include combustion, green fuels, electrified manufacturing, near-limit supercritical combustion, chemical kinetics, plasma chemistry, non-equilibrium manufacturing of hydrogen, ammonia, e-fuels, and energy materials. He has published over 300 refereed journal articles and is a fellow of AIAA and ASME, as well as a founding fellow of the Combustion Institute. Additionally, he serves on the Board of Directors for the Combustion Institute and the Institute for Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems, and is the chair of the Combustion Institute's sections. He is an Associate Editor for the AIAA Journal of Combustion Science and Technology. Prof. Ju has received numerous awards, including four Distinguished Paper Awards from the International Symposium on Combustion (2011, 2015, 2021, 2023), the NASA Director’s Certificate of Appreciation (2011), the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2011), the International Prize from the Japanese Combustion Society (2018), the 2021 Propellants & Combustion Award from AIAA, the Alfred C. Egerton Gold Medal from the Combustion Institute (2022), and the 2022 Distinguished Teacher Award from the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University.
GRE scores are not accepted. Ph.D. is the primary degree; students are not required to hold an M.S.E. prior to admission.