Faculty

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Robyn L. Macdonald

Assistant Professor
Aerospace Engineering Sciences
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...

Graduate Research Assistant - PhD

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Molly Bowers

Graduate Research Assistant - PhD
Mechanical Engineering
Education: B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Western Michigan University, 2019. Bio: Molly Bowers is a PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Mechanical Engineering Dept, working with Dr. Robyn Macdonald. Her research focuses on RANS turbulence modeling for hypersonic flows over wall roughness. She received her Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Western Michigan University in 2019, where she lead the Sunseeker solar racecar team through three American Solar Challenge...
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Mateus Braga

Graduate Research Assistant - PhD
Aerospace Engineering Sciences
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...
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Tristan Peterson

Graduate Research Assistant - PhD
Aerospace Engineering Sciences
Education: B.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Miami, 2024 Bio: Tristan Peterson is a PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder within the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences working with Dr. Robyn Macdonald. His research interests include hypersonic flows, chemical kinetics, and turbulence. Tristan received his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Miami in May 2024. At UM, Tristan led the university鈥檚 collegiate high-power rocketry team and worked...
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Shrihari Ravichandran

Graduate Research Assistant - PhD
Aerospace Engineering Sciences
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...
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Luis Rodriguez

Graduate Research Assistant - PhD
Aerospace Engineering Sciences
Education : B.E., Aeronautical Engineering, Instituto Polit茅cnico Nacional, 2020; M.S., Physics, Universidad Nacional Aut贸noma de M茅xico, 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...

Graduate Research Assistant - Masters

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Joshua Camp

Graduate Research Assistant - Masters
Aerospace Engineering Sciences

Undergraduate Researcher

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Jackson Simon

Undergraduate Researcher
Mechanical Engineering
Education: B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Expected May 2025 Bio: Jackson Simon is a senior Mechanical Engineering student at The University of Colorado Boulder. From Fall 2020 to December 2022, he attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison in mechanical engineering where he was an aerodynamics and composites engineer for the Wisconsin Racing Formula SAE Team. He is interested in the design of rocket propulsion systems, the simulation of reacting...

Alumni (Undergraduate Reseachers)

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Liam Harris

Undergraduate Researcher
Aerospace Engineering Sciences
B.S. Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder (2024)