Catherine Mavriplis

Research Scientist and Professional Engineer


Undergraduate studies in Mechanical Engineering (Honours) at McGill University in Montreal and Master's and Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Thesis advisors were Rabi Baliga (Bachelor's), Wes Harris (Master's), and Tony Patera (Ph.D.), though Yvon Maday was also heavily involved for the Ph.D. Postdoc' with Steve Orszag at Princeton University in the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics and the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

Tenured professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at The George Washington University from 1991 to 2005. Co-director and co-founder of the Center for the Study of Combustion and the Environment. Participating member and co-founder of the Institute for MEMS and VLSI Technologies. Currently an adjunct professor at GW, where she teaches by distance education.

Visiting scientist at ICASE and at CERCA and a Program Director in the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the National Science Foundation.

Currently a Research Scientist at the University of Oklahoma and the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma.

Funded by NSF and NASA.
Graduated 9 PhD students, 3 Engineer degree students, 6 MS thesis students,
and supervised 3 Postdocs.

Awards:
GWU ENgineers' Council Professor of the Year Award, 1994
NSF ADVANCE Leadership Award 2001
NSF ADVANCE Leadership Award 2005