People Category: AIAA Propulsion and Energy Forum 2021

Phil McGoldrick

Philip has served over 20 years on industrial research topics for high performance electric machines for aerospace applications, with current applications in high kW/kg motors for Advanced Air Mobility eVTOL and eCTOL vehicles.

His main area of interest is Programme Management of large collaborative research projects to progress the CO2 reduction agenda in aviation.

Philip has a degree in Applied Physics from the University of Strathclyde (1986) and has spent 35 years working in UK industry in high tech engineering and manufacturing.

Isabel Del Pozo de Poza

Isabel del Pozo de Poza has over 10 years of experience in the ATM field. She has been actively involved in the European ATM Master Plan updates and the European drone roadmap in the last decade. She participated in common initiatives between SESAR and NextGen, supporting the trajectory based operation concept on both ATM modernization programs. Isabel studied Aeronautics at TU Munich and holds a PhD addressing the “Assessment of Fairness and Equity in Trajectory Based Air Traffic Management” from the University of Glasgow. She joined Airbus Helicopters in 2013 where she acted as an expert and later senior expert in the field of ATM and Civil Operations while heading as well the department for Mission Management. She lead the ATM/UTM roadmap across Airbus and was appointed in 2018 Head of Airspace Management – UTM within the Airbus Urban Air Mobility Organisation. As Vice President, Isabel promotes the vision of an integrated air traffic management to guarantee the safe, sustainable and efficient integration of more digital, autonomous, and new operations

Bahareh Zaghari

Dr. Bahareh Zaghari is a lecturer in propulsion integration at Cranfield University, UK. Bahareh’s research areas include, electrified aircraft propulsion, performance diagnostics and failure analysis, nonlinear dynamics and energy harvesting, electrical machines and drives, sensor technologies and measurement, and wireless data and power transmission.

As well as her teaching and supervising PhD. and MSc. students, Bahareh leads the research in electric power distribution within the FutPrInt50 project (Horizon 2020), which aims to advance the state of the art by identifying and developing technologies that will accelerate the entry-into-service of a commercial hybrid-electric aircraft.

Bahareh is also involved in research projects within Cranfield University in building electric aircraft (enabEl project, Innovate UK).

Bahareh leads research in high temperature sensing, in particular temperature sensing of turbine blades and nozzle guide vanes. Herself and her team are designing and testing new acoustic sensors as part of a project funded by the LIoyd’s Register Foundation and the International Consortium of Nanotechnologies.

Prior to joining Cranfield University in September 2020, Bahareh was a Research Fellow at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering at the University of Southampton, UK, where she has worked on several research projects. These projects include: Intelligent Integrated Bearing Systems (Horizon2020, Clean Sky 2, I2BS), European Infrastructure Powering the Internet of Things (Horizon2020, EnABLES), and Wearable and Autonomous Computing for Future Smart Cities (EPSRC). Bahareh has conducted research related to the design of high temperature amplifiers, self-powered wireless sensors, and processors. Bahareh has contributed to developing novel signal processing algorithms to identify failure modes in bearings. These algorithms were incorporated into a smart bearing sensing system, which consists of a thermal energy harvesting system, a switched reluctance rotational energy harvester, and high temperature embedded processors, wireless data transmission, amplifiers, and power management circuits. The resulting bearing system was developed in collaboration with Safran Aircraft Engines and Schaeffler Group.

Bahareh has been a principal investigator on cycling with an intelligent communication link (CICL) (part of EPSRC Wearable and Autonomous Computing for Future Smart Cities), andwith her team they designed a novel electric motor based on a switched reluctance machine for a smart bicycle. As part of this project, they developed mobile pollution sensing, and wearable wireless power transmission systems.

In 2017, Bahareh received her PhD., “Dynamic analysis of a nonlinear parametrically excited system using electromagnets”, from the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, University of Southampton, UK. She finished her MSc. in Advanced Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics from University of Southampton, UK 2012.

Bahareh is a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Within AIAA, she serves as the Publications Committee chair for the 2021 AIAA/IEEE Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium. She is also a member of IET and IEEE. Bahareh was nominated by the staff and students in 2019 and received WISET+ ward for her contributions in supporting students and teaching.

Gokcin Cinar

Gökçin Çınar is a Research Engineer II at Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL) at Georgia Institute of Technology. Çınar’s main research interests include electrified aircraft propulsion and power, aircraft systems architecting, design and integration, and power management optimization. Since 2012, she has been involved in a range of projects including but not limited to future aircraft technologies, green aviation, electrified aircraft and its propulsion subsystems, thermal management systems, and model-based systems engineering.

Çınar received Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2015 and 2018, respectively. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey in 2012. Her doctoral dissertation titled “Methodology for Dynamic Sizing of Electric Power Generation and Distribution Architectures” was conducted in consultation with Prof. Dimitri Mavris at Georgia Tech. As part of her Ph.D. work, she created a parametric, physics-based novel aircraft design and analysis software called “Electrified Propulsion Architecture Sizing and Synthesis (E-PASS)”. E-PASS has since enabled various new research topics funded by entities such as NASA, AFRL, and Boeing.

As a research engineer at ASDL, Çınar leads or works with multi-disciplinary groups to conduct fundamental research funded by various sponsors from the industry and government. She advises graduate students on their projects and theses. As someone who likes to add their own touch to their “habitat”, Çınar also kick-started or rekindled some projects at ASDL that were not necessarily in her job definition. She manages ASDL’s website and social media accounts on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn, and rekindled the ASDL publication repository on Georgia Tech’s open-access publication repository, SMARTech, where you can find the many research papers and dissertations published by ASDL over the years. Çınar started the ASDL Knowledge Sharing Project which provides a platform for researchers to share their experience, codes, tools, documents, or Q&A’s.

Çınar is a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Within AIAA, she serves as the Publications and Policy Chair of the Electrified Aircraft Technical Committee, and is a also the Technical Program Co-Chair for the 2021 AIAA/IEEE Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium.

Hideyuki Taguchi

Dr. Hideyuki TAGUCHI obtained his Ph. D at the University of Tokyo and has been working for Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA.

He has developed a hydrogen powered jet engine and he is working on conceptual study of hydrogen aircraft and future space transportation systems.

 

Charles Cross

Dr. Charles J. Cross is the Chief of the Turbine Engine Division, Aerospace Systems Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. In this capacity, he leads a 250 person division in executing a $110,000,000 per year budget to plan, develop and transition advanced turbine engine technologies in order to sustain legacy systems, develop emerging systems, and enable future propulsion concepts. To fulfill this mission, he is the Tri-service lead for the Advanced Turbine Technology for Affordable Mission Capability (ATTAM) program, ensuring USAF efforts are coordinated across DoD services.

Dr. Cross has been with the Air Force Research Laboratory and its predecessor organizations since 1989. His multi-faceted technical activities have included serving as an in-house researcher, team leader, group leader, program manager, branch chief, consultant, mentor and technical leader for basic research in structural dynamics, life prediction and failure analysis of turbine engine components. He is an internationally recognized expert in turbine engine dynamics, mechanics and durability and has led numerous national and international teams to investigate costly turbine engine fatigue and structural dynamics issues to resolve problems that impacted fielded engine systems for many years. His publication record includes over 110 journal papers, technical reports and proceedings, and one patent.

 

Peter Green

Peter F. Green has served as deputy laboratory director for Science and Technology and chief research officer of NREL and senior vice president of the Alliance for Sustainable Energy—the company that operates NREL for the U.S. Department of Energy—since 2016.

In his role as deputy laboratory director for Science and Technology, Green is responsible for NREL’s science and research goals, strengthening the laboratory’s core capabilities, and enhancing NREL’s research portfolio. In addition, he oversees the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program, NREL-university interactions, and the postdoctoral research program.

Prior to his appointment at NREL, Green spent 20 years in academia and 11 years at Sandia National Laboratories, where his professional career began in 1985. He moved from Sandia to The University of Texas in 1996, where he became the B.F. Goodrich Endowed Professor of Materials Engineering and a professor of chemical engineering. In 2005, he was recruited to the University of Michigan to become chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He was also the Vincent T. and Gloria M. Gorguze Endowed Professor of Engineering as well as professor of chemical engineering, applied physics, and macromolecular science and technology. He served as director of a DOE Energy Frontiers Research Center: Center for Solar and Thermal Energy Conversion.

Green’s prior leadership experience includes serving as president of the Materials Research Society (MRS). He has been a member of advisory boards for the national academies, national laboratories, and universities.

His awards include election to the position of fellow of a number of societies: MRS, American Physical Society, American Ceramics Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Other recognition includes inaugural editor in chief, MRS Communications; National Science Foundation Creativity Extension Award; divisional associate editor, Physical Review Letters; and “Outstanding Referee” for the Journals of the American Physical Society.

He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics from Hunter College and a master’s and doctorate in materials science and engineering from Cornell University.

Simon Feast

Simon Feast is Future SABRE Studies Lead at Reaction Engines in the UK. His current responsibilities include preparing concept analysis and trade studies for future engine and launch vehicle applications. He also manages the SABRE flight development strategy and product roadmap activities, as well as coordination of external collaborative studies supporting the SABRE programme.

He was originally hired in 2004, whilst completing his university studies at Oxford Brookes University. After graduating with an MSc in Advanced Engineering Design, Simon has held several positions within the business, working across a broad range of SABRE technology programmes, including development of production methods for compact tubular heat exchangers, design and construction of the cryogenic engine test facility, test programme, combustion chamber and nozzle manufacture and testing, whole engine architecture design studies, etc.

Tom Martin

Tom Martin is the Propulsion Sales Director for Blue Origin. His primary focus is leveraging Blue’s innovative launch and in-space solutions for U.S. Government , civil and commercial customers. Tom joined Blue in early 2021. Prior to joining Blue, he was the Director of Business Development for Aerojet Rocketdyne with overall responsibilities for their National Security, Civil and Commercial space access pursuits.

Tom began his career as a combustion devices development engineer on the Space Shuttle Main Engine program at Boeing Rocketdyne. He worked as a project engineer and manager on several liquid rocket engine development programs including the J-2X, F-1B, and AR1. Tom worked in technical positions within the Advanced Programs group. Over the last ten years, his focus has shifted from engineering to strategy and business capture, leading major captures with the US Government and commercial launch vehicle customers. Tom is passionate about space access and the Rocket Equation.

Tom graduated from Purdue University with a B.S. and M.S. in Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering. He also earned an M.B.A from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business.

Dan Andrews

Daniel Andrews is the Director of Engineering at NASA’s Ames Research Center, detailed to lead the VIPER rover mission to the moon. Dan has been working closely with NASA-Headquarters in Washington DC to develop the first US robotic rover mission to the moon, VIPER. This mission follows on the heels of the ground-truthing LCROSS mission, which he also led, confirming the presence of billions of gallons of water-ice on the South Pole of the Moon.

Dan is known in NASA for leading capabilities-driven, cost-effective missions. Dan received his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from San Jose State University and his Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. He started his career at NASA’s Ames Research Center as an automation and controls engineer working on many diverse robotic technology demonstration projects, including
development of a 3-axis Exobiology Robotic Table, a Serpentine Robot, an Autonomous Rotorcraft, and the Personal Satellite Assistant (PSA) Project – a free-flying robot astronaut assistant, garnering the attention of Newsweek, Popular Science, and Air & Space Magazine, and was named one of the “50 Best Robots Ever” in Wired Magazine.

Dan has received numerous NASA awards including the Outstanding Leadership Medal and the Exceptional Achievement Medal, as well as several Group Achievement awards. His teams have received a number of industry awards such as Popular Mechanics’ Breakthrough Award, the Space Foundation’s “John L. ‘Jack’ Swigert Jr. Award for Space Exploration”, and the National Space Society’s Space Pioneer Award.