Simon Schmitt Email & Phone Number

Lexington, Kentucky, United States

NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA

• Contractor at the NASA Ames Research Center in the Thermal Protection Materials Branch within the Entry Systems and Technology Division.
• Simulation and modeling of heatshield performance during hypersonic atmospheric entry. This includes Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Finite Element Analysis (FEA), computational chemistry (DFT, KMC, DSMC), etc.
• Development of software tools in Python, Fortran and C++ to predict material response and failure of heatshield materials due to chemical erosion. These tools allow us to improve the design and safety of.
• Managed a NASA research internship project from proposal to closeout, which resulted in a new methodology to estimate chemistry model uncertainties using machine learning.

• Worked on the "High Fidelity Modeling of TPS Features, Damage, and Failure” subtask within the NASA ACCESS STRI project.
• Developed a computational chemistry framework that added a new capability to predict erosion and failure of carbon fibers due to oxidation.

Lexington, Kentucky, United States

Lexington, Kentucky, United States

Weissach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

• Managed vehicle interior assembly workshops in early-stage prototypes to identify, track and remedy assembly issues early on in the development cycle.
• Developed and tested automated analytics tool for issue tracking in Excel through custom VBA macro.
• Curated CAD databases before they were sent out to contractors for prototype manufacturing.

Germersheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Germersheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Hands-on experience with metal processing including welding, machining, and cutting.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Mechanical Engineering

Graduate Certificate, Computational Fluid Dynamics

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering