Azam Thatte, Ph.D Email & Phone Number

- Chief Scientist leading the development of radical new ideas and technologies for mitigating climate change.- Inventor of the PXG Technology : A revolutionary machine for increasing efficiency of Low Global Warming Trans-Critical CO2 Refrigeration using Expansion Work Recovery via Acoustic Waves.- P.I. / co-P.I. on several multi-million $ research grants from U.S Department of Energy to develop disruptive clean energy technologies using Supercritical State of matter ( e.g. Supercritical CO2).- Part of a NASA team that first made the groundbreaking discovery of an organic molecule on an exoplanet.- GE's Inventor Medal- Paul Cook Innovation Award from ERI- Young Tribologist international award from STLE.- Well published and highly cited researcher with over 50 international journal and peer reviewed conference publications including Nature. Over 1000 citations of my papers.- Over 30 patents in the field of Aircraft Engines Design, Supercritical CO2 Turbomachines, Acoustic Wave Compressor-Expander, Low Global Warming Refrigeration & Heat Pumps, Trans-Critical CO2 Refrigeration, Geothermal Power, Rotary Pressure Exchangers, Hydrodynamic Gas Bearings, Self-Correcting Thin Film Riding Seals, Micro/ Nano Sensors & Guided Lamb Wave Sensors.-Developed hidden signal extraction algorithms for Astrophysics and Planetary Spectroscopy that are now deployed by NASA, ESA and Royal Society.- Named Inventor of novel Acoustic Sensors for Multi-Phase Flow Imaging and 3D structural defect mapping.- Named Inventor of several new Ultra-Low Global Warming Refrigeration Technologies including the revolutionary Trans-Critical Rotary Pressure Exchanger that is now being commercialized by ERI.- Developed GE's Advanced Aircraft Engines (GE 9X, GE LEAP), Next Gen. Gas Turbine and Steam Turbine Technologies as well as Subsea Oil & Gas extraction methods.- On the list of "Top 10 Most Downloaded Papers" for Journal of Tribology for several years. - Finalist for Edison Prize at Georgia Tech ( chosen from over 300 researchers)- Reviewer for 6 major international journals in Solid Mechanics & Thermal-Fluid Sciences- 6 prestigious invited talks at international conferences. - Computational and experimental research in the field of Aerodynamics, Supercritical State Fluid Dynamics, Multi-phase fluid-structure interaction, Acoustic-structure interaction, Multi-scale visco-elasto-hydrodynamics, contact mechanics, nano-scale surface physics, molecular dynamics.-Developed Multi-Scale Models and Algorithms for solving Strongly Coupled Physics problems.

Listed skills include Matlab, Research, Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, and 33 others.