Babak Shotorban, Group Director, Professor

He has a broad research interest in the mathematical, computational, and stochastic description of multiphysics and multiphase processes involving fluids or plasmas. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2005 and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets (CSAR) until 2007. Then, he worked as a CFD software development engineer at ESI-Group until 2008 before joining UAH as Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2014 and Professor in 2019. In 2018,  he was honored with the University Distinguished Research Award, the highest research accolade for faculty and research staff at UAH. He is recognized as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and an Associate Fellow of The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).