Alessandro Gomez, Ph.D
Professor of
Mechanical Engineering

Director of the
Yale Center for
Combustion Studies

Yale University
P.O. Box 208286
New Haven, CT 06520-8286
USA

Phone: 203.432.4384
Fax 203.432.7654
alessandro.gomez@yale.edu

YALE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCE 

BIOGRAPHY

Education
1986             Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
1982             Master of Arts in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton    University
1980             Laurea in Ingegneria Aeronautica (Aeronautical Engineering) (summa cum laude), University of Naples, Italy

Research and Education Experience
2007-2015         Associate Editor of Combustion, Science and Technology
1999-2002         Director of Graduate Studies for Engineering and Applied Science
1998-                Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Yale University
1994-                Director of the Yale Center for Combustion Studies, Yale University
1993-1998         Associate Professor in the Department  of Mechanical Engineering, YU
1989-1993         Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, YU
1988                 Lecturer in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Chemical  Engineering, YU
1986-1987         Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Chemical Engineering Department, YU
1980-1985         Assistant in Research in the M.A.E. Department, Princeton University
1982, Fall           Research Trainee at U.T.R.C.
1980 (July)         Research Trainee at the Von Karman Institute of Fluid Mechanics, Belgium
1979-1980         Intern at the Combustion Laboratory of the C.N.R. in Naples, Italy
1978-1979         Intern at the Institute of Aerodynamics in Naples, Italy

Awards, Honors and Scholarships
2019            Fellow Combustion Institute
2015            Member of the Connecticut Academy of Science
1996            Whitby Award from the American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR)
1995-1998    Barton Weller Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, YU
1992            NSF Young Investigator Award
1980-1981    Fulbright Scholarship
1980            Von Karman Institute of Fluid Mechanics Scholarship.
1979-1980    A.T.A. (Associazione Technica dell'Automobile) Scholarship
1978-1979    Aeritalia Scholarship

Research Interests
Combustion, Aerosol Mechanics and Chemistry, Transport Phenomena, Atomization and Sprays, Fluid Mechanics

Professional Societies
Combustion Institute, ASME, AAAR

Publications and Patents
Author of more than 100 publications and 4 patents

Teaching
Undergraduate courses in: thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, including laboratory courses on both, propulsion, aerodynamics and energy; graduate courses in combustion.

Synergistic Activities
I have been advising graduate and undergraduate students, including under-represented minorities. More than half of the students graduating from my laboratory received one of the two awards that are yearly assigned to the best graduating doctoral students across the entire School of Engineering and Applied Science at Yale, which attests to good mentorship.In addition, I have been involved in outreach activities, including: periodically hosting high school students carrying out research projects and undergraduate minority students. I worked with New Haven School teachers, as a seminar leader in the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute (YNHTI). I gave a series of lectures on “Energy, Engines and the Environment,” on the basis of which 12 teachers developed curricular units for classes ranging from kindergarten to high school. The model of the NHTI has been very successful and has been exported to other inner cities across the country, as documented in http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/.

Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisees- 15 graduate students pursuing their PhD and 6 postdoctoral associates.

Graduate and Postgraduate Advisor- Professor Irvin Glassman (Princeton University), Professor Daniel Rosner (Yale University).