Robyn Macdonald
- Assistant Professor
- AEROSPACE MECHANICS RESEARCH CENTER (AMREC)
Focus Area
Fluids, Structures and Materials
Education
PhD, Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019
BS, Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013
Professional Experience
2021 - Present, Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
2020, Visiting Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
2019 - 2020, Postdoctoral Associate, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota
2013 - 2019, Research Associate, Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Awards (selected)
NASA Early Career Faculty Fellow, 2023
Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Research Program Fellow, 2021
President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, University of Minnesota, 2019-2020
AE Faculty Outstanding Graduate Student Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, 2015-2018
Research Interests
Hypersonic flows, computation of chemically reacting flows, chemical kinetics, radiation modeling