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Professor
Yiguang Ju |
Yiguang Ju is the Robert Porter Patterson Professor at Princeton University, his bachelor degree in Engineering Thermophyiscs from Tsinghua University in 1986, and his PhD degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Tohoku University in 1994.
He was appointed as an Assistant and Associate Professor at Tohoku University in 1995 and 1998, and as a Changjiang Professor and the Director of Thermophysics Institute at Tsinghua University in 2000. He joined Princeton University in 2001 and became a full professor in 2011. Prof. Ju’s research interests include combustion and propulsion in the area of near limit combustion, microscale combustion, plasma assisted propulsion, alternative fuels, chemical kinetics, multiscale modeling, and functional nano-materials.
He has published more than 140 refereed journal articles. He is an ASME Fellow and a board member of Combustion Institute of Eastern States. He received a number of awards including the Young Investigators Award (1999) at the First Asia Pacific Conference on Combustion, the Best Paper Award (1999) by the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences, the Yangtzi River Scholar Award (2000) by the Chinese Education Ministry, the National Outstanding Young Scholar award from NSFC (2001), the Distinguished Paper Award from the Thirty-third International Symposium on Combustion (2010), the NASA Director’s Certificate of Appreciation award (2011), the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2011), and the Hsue-Shen Tsien Professorship of Engineering Sciences of Institute of Mechanics at Chinese Academy of Science (2013). |