Paul Papas

Fluid Mechanics Laboratory
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
CH-1015 Lausanne; Switzerland

Paul Papas received a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1988, M.A. in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University in 1990, and Ph.D. in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University in 1994.  At Princeton University, he was awarded an AFRAPT Fellowship (1991-1993) and the Luigi Crocco Prize for Best Teaching Assistant in 1994.  From 1994-96, he was a National Research Council Fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory (Washington DC).  Since 1996, he has been a Senior Lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne Switzerland, where he gives courses in aircraft stability, aerodynamics, and combustion. His research covers a broad range of topics in fluid mechanics and combustion, including reacting mixing layer dynamics and instabilities, thermo-acoustic oscillations in industrial combustors, high-temperature fuel oxidation kinetics, and flame extinction.

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