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Carmen Guerra-Garcia
Atlantic Richfield Career Development Professor in Energy Studies, Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Aeronautics and Astronautics
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Education

Ingeniero Aeronautico, 2007, Madrid Polytechnic University; S.M. Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2011, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ph.D. Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2014, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Expertise

My research interests lie at the intersection of aerospace engineering, low-temperature plasma technologies, and gas discharge physics.

Awards
  • 2024, Junior Bose Award, School of Engineering
  • 2024, NSF CAREER Award
  • 2021, Young Investigator Award, Office of Naval Research (ONR)
  • 2021, Earll M. Murman Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising, MIT
  • 2021, EU-US Frontiers of Engineering, National Academy of Engineering
  • 2019, Senior Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
  • 2013, Vos Fellow, MIT AeroAstro
  • 2012, Amelia Earhart Fellow, Zonta International
  • 2012, Fellow, Foundation Caja Madrid
  • 2009, International Fulbright Science and Technology Award, U.S. Department of State
  • 2007, First National Award in Aeronautical Engineering, Spanish Ministry of Education
  • 2007, Award Francisco Arranz, Spanish Society of Aeronautical Engineers

My current efforts span from aircraft safety issues (interaction of lightning with aircraft, novel methods for protection and mitigation against lightning strike damage), to plasma technologies for ignition and combustion, and combine multi-physics modeling, computation, and experimentation.

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