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Pronouns : She/Her/Hers Education : B.S. Aerospace Engineering (2013) and Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering (2019), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Bio : Dr. Robyn L. Macdonald is an assistant professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research interests are in computational modeling of physical phenomena relevant to hypersonic flowfields, including gas phase chemistry, laminar-ot-turbulent transition, and turbulent flows. She completed her PhD at the University of Illinois...

Pronouns : He/Him/His Education : B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, University of Manitoba, 2021 Bio : Mateus Braga is a Ph.D. student at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Aerospace and Engineering Sciences working with Dr. Robyn Macdonald. His research focuses on direct numerical simulation (DNS) of boundary layer laminar-to-turbulent transition for application to hypersonic (re-entry) flows, as well as developing a non-equilibrium wall model for application to large...

Education : B.E. B.M.S. College of Engineering, 2020. Bio : Shrihari is a PhD student at the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at CU Boulder, working with Dr. Robyn Macdonald. He works on developing and refining high-fidelity kinetics models for gas-phase recombination of molecules, and investigating the role of recombination in hypersonic flows using these models. His research is funded by Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). Shrihari completed...

Education : B.E., Aeronautical Engineering, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, 2020; M.S., Physics, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2022. Bio : Luis Rodriguez is a second-year Ph.D. student advised by Professor Robyn Macdonald in the Department of Aerospace and Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His research interests include hypersonic flow, chemical kinetics, and plasma modeling. Luis was born and raised in Mexico. He received his B.E. in aeronautical engineering...

Education : B.S. Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder (2024) Bio : Liam Harris is an Senior at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Aerospace and Engineering Sciences working with Dr. Robyn Macdonald. He is developing a two-temperature model to better characterize hypersonic boundary layers for application on re-entry vehicles.