Yiguang Ju
Princeton University
School of Engineering and Applied Science
| Education | |
| July 1986 | Bachelor Degree; Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, China |
| Aug. 1988 | Master Degree; Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, China |
| Mar. 1994 | Ph. D. (Engr.); Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tohoku University Japan |
| Employment and Affiliations | |
| 1994-1995 | Research Associate; Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University, Japan |
| 1995-1998 | Assistant Professor; Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University, Japan |
| 1998-2000 | Associate Professor; School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Japan |
| 1999-2000 | Research Staff; Department of Mech. and Aerospace Eng., Princeton University |
| 2000-2001 | Yangzi-River Professor, Director of the Institute of Engineering Thermo-physics, Tsinghua University, China |
| 2001-2007 | Assistant Professor, Department of Mech. and Aerospace Eng., Princeton University |
| 2007-2011 | Associate Professor, Department of Mech. and Aerospace Eng., Princeton University |
| 2011-2013 | Professor, Director of Sustainable Energy, Department of Mech. and Aerospace Eng., Princeton University |
| 2013-2022 | Robert Porter Patterson Professor, Director of Sustainable Energy Program, Princeton University |
| 2023-2023 | Visiting Professor, Tokyo college, University of Tokyo |
| 2023-2024 | Robert Porter Patterson Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University Managing Principal Research Physicist, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) |
| 2024-Present | Robert Porter Patterson Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University Associated faculty and Head of Electromanufacturing Sciences, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) Director of DOE Energy Earthshot Research Center (EERC) for Plasma Assisted Hydrogen Production |
| 2025-2030 | Distinguished Professor (Visiting), Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University |
| Awards & Honors | |
| Nov 1995 | Fluid Science Research Award by the Fluid Science Foundation, Japan |
| May 1999 | ASPACC Young Investigators Award (Best Paper Award) by the First Asia Pacific Conference on Combustion |
| Apr 1999 | Best Paper Award by Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences |
| Aug 2000 | Yangzi River Scholar Award by Chinese Education Ministry |
| Oct 2001 | Outstanding Young Scholars Award by National Science Foundation of China |
| Sep 2005 | Associate Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics |
| Jul 2006 | Overseas Young Scholars Award by National Science Foundation of China |
| May 2007 | Best Paper Award by the Fifth Asia Pacific Conference on Combustion |
| Mar 2011 | Distinguished Paper Award by the 33rd International Symposium on Combustion |
| July 2011 | NASA Administrator’s Certificate of Appreciation Award by National Aeronautics and Space Administration for outstanding contribution to NASA’s space missions |
| Oct 2011 | Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) |
| Nov 2011 | Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation |
| May 2013 | Hsue-Shen Tsien (钱学森) Professorship of Engineering Sciences, The Institute of Mechanics of Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| May 2013 | The First Place Award for the Art Merit of the Combustion Art Competition at the 8th US National Combustion Meeting |
| Jul 2013 | The Robert Porter Patterson Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University |
| Feb 2014 | Plenary Lecture, The 8th International Conference on Reactive Plasmas, Fukuoka, Japan |
| Jul 2014 | Plenary Lecture, 1st International Symposium on Energy Challenges and Mechanics, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Mar 2015 | Distinguished Paper Award, the 35rd International Symposium on Combustion |
| Jul 2015 | Keynote Lecture, 22nd International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry, Belgium, 2015.7 |
| Nov 2015 | Best Paper Award, Japanese Society of Combustion, 2015.11 |
| Mar 2016 | Chair of Eastern State Section of the Combustion Institute (ESSCI) |
| May 2016 | Plenary Lecture, The 52nd Korean Society of Combustion Symposium, Buyeo, Korea |
| Dec 2016 | Plenary Lecture, The Fifth International Education Forum on Environment and Energy Science, San Diego, USA |
| Jan 2017 | Deputy Editors-in-Chief, Frontiers in Energy |
| Mar 2017 | Invited Lecture, KAUST Research Conference: New Combustion Concepts |
| Apr 2017 | Chair of US Sections of the Combustion Institute (USSCI) |
| Jul 2017 | Distinguished Visiting Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering, United Kingdom |
| Aug 2017 | Honorary Professorship, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China |
| Oct 2017 | Air Products Distinguished Lecturer, The Pennsylvania State University, USA |
| Feb 2018 | Fellow of the Combustion Institute,The Combustion Institute (International) |
| Nov 2018 | International Prize,The Japanese Combustion Society |
| Jan 2019 | Fellow of School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo |
| May 2019 | Karl H. Walther Award, by THE AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC GLASSBLOWERS SOCIETY. |
| Jun 2019 | First Prize for the Best Oral Presentation (by Aric Rousso), 24th International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry and Sponsored by Journal of Applied Physics D |
| Jul 2020 | JSME Best Paper |
| Jan 2021 | Plenary Lecturer, the 38th International Symposium on Combustion, 2020, in Adelaide, Australia; The Combustion Institute (International). |
| Apr 2021 | Distinguished paper award, the 38th International Symposium on Combustion, 2021, in Adelaide, Australia; The Combustion Institute (International). |
| Aug 2021 | AIAA Propellants and Combustion Award, The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) |
| May 2022 | Distinguished Teacher Award, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Princeton University |
| Jul 2022 | Alfred C. Egerton Gold Medal, The Combustion Institute |
| Jan 2023 | Distinguished Lecturer, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University |
| Mar 2023 | Distinguished Paper Award, The 39th International Symposium on Combustion,The Combustion Institute |
| Mar 2023 | Distinguished Lecturer, Dept. of Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University |
| Jul 2023 | Invited Visiting Professor, Tokyo College, University of Tokyo |
| Feb 2024 | AIAA Fellow, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) |
| Apr 2024 | 2024 Invention of the Year Award, University of Maryland |
| May 2024 | Energy Innovation Award, Princeton University |
| Feb 2025 | Peer Review Committee Member, National Research Council, Clean Energy Center, Canada |
| Mar 2025 | Review Panelist, European Research Council, Advance Grants |
| Mar 2025 | Honorable Mention, a distinguished paper “Numerical modeling of plasma assisted deflagration to detonation transition in a microscale channel” at the 40th International Symposium of Combustion Institute |
| Mar 2025 | Distinguished Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, Michigan State Technological University |
| May 2025 | Plenary Lecturer, 35th National Conference on Combustion and Energy of Taiwan Section of the Republic of China (R.O.C.) (Taiwan) |
| May 2025 | Plenary Lecturer, 2025 Canadian Section of the Combustion Institute Spring Technical Meeting, Calgary, Canada |
| Jun 2025 | Keynote Lecturer, 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Laser Diagnostics in Energy and Reacting Flows, Les Diablerets, Switzerland |
| Aug 2025 | R&D 100 Award, R&D World, for inventing Uniform, ultrahigh-temperature, stable plasma apparatus. This is a worldwide science and innovation competition. |
| Nov 2025 | Distinguished Professor (Visiting), Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University |
| Dec. 2025 | Plenary lecturer, 10th East Asia Joint Symposium on Plasma and Electrostatic Technologies for Environmental Application (EAPETEA-10), Kumamoto, Japan |
| July 2026 | International Award for Science and Technology, Tohoku University |
| Aug 2026 | R&D 100 Award, R&D World, for inventing Electrified Plastic Pyrolysis Reactor (EPPR) for Jet Fuel and Diesel Production and Chemicals. This is a worldwide science and innovation competition. |
Service of Professional Societies
1. Combustion Institute (International)
Gold medal selection Committee (2026)
- Fellow selection committee (2023-2027)
- Board of Directors of the Combustion Institute (International) (2018-2024)
- Combustion Institute Fellow Selection Committee (2018-2025)
- Chair of the US Sections of Combustion Institute (USSCI) (2017-2019)
- Chair of Eastern State Section of the Combustion Institute (ESSCI) (2018-2020)
- Colloquium co-chair of 32nd, 33rd, 34th and 37th International Symposium on Combustion (2007-2018)
- Member of Nomination Committee of Combustion Institute (International) (2015-2020)
- Chair of the Gold Medal Nomination Committee of Combustion Institute (International) (2015-2016)
- Associate Editor of Proceeding of the Combustion Institute (International) (2013-2023)
Editorial Board Member of Combustion and Flame (2010-2016)
2. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
o AIAA Fellow Peer Review Committee (2024-2026)
o Technical Committee Member of Combustion and Propellants (2005-)
o Co-Chair of Publication Sub-Committee for Aerospace America (2004-)
o Organization Chair of 2014 AIAA SciTech Meeting (Propellant & Combustion)
o Associate Editor, AIAA Journal
3. The Institute for the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems
o Board member of ICDERS (2017-2021)
4. American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME)
o Section Chair, the ASME 2nd Energy Nanotechnology International Conference (2007).
o Committee member, ASME K13 Combustion and Fire subcommittee
5. National Program Committee Services
o National Academies of Sciences (NAS) Planning Committee for Chemistry 2050: A Roadmap to the Future (2026)
- National Academies of Sciences (NAS) Steering Committee for Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences Research in Space (2021-2023)
- Technical Advisory Council member of DOE NETL University Coalition for Fossil Energy Research (UCFER) (2016-2022)
- Reviewer for the National Academies of Sciences (NAS) Committee Report of Advanced Technologies for Gas Turbines (2019)
- National Academies of Sciences (NAS) Committee for Midterm Assessment of Implementation of NASA Life and Physical Sciences Research (2017-2018)
- Department of Energy (DOE) on Site Review Committee for Combustion Research Facility of Gas Phase Chemical Physics (2017)
- National Academies of Sciences (NAS) Committee for Midterm Assessment of Implementation of NASA Life and Physical Sciences Research (2017-2018)
- Department of Energy (DOE) on Site Review Committee for Combustion Research Facility of Gas Phase Chemical Physics (2017)
- NASA Committee for Rocket Study (2010-2011)
6. International Advisory Board and Technical/Steering Committee Member
o The National Research Council of Canada (NRC), Clean Energy Innovation Research Centre peer review committee (2024-2025)
o Panel Member in the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants evaluation panel (2024.9-2025.5)
o International collaborator of the Japan’s ASPIRE project at Institute of Science Tokyo for international data analysis platform for “Inorganic Power storage Materials Informatics” (2024-2030)
o International Advisory Member, InfoSyEnergy Consortium, Institute of Science Tokyo (Tokyo Institute of Technology) (2020-2026)
o The Global Core of Education (GCOE) of Energy Science Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (2008-2012)
o Committee Member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to review NASA’s Program of Recapturing a Future for Space Exploration, Life and Physical Sciences Research for a New Era (2017)
o Academy for Co-creative Education of Environment and Energy Science (ACEEES), Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, 2012-2017
o 1st International Workshop on High Temperature Gas Dynamics (Beijing, 2012);
o 1st -3rd International Flame Chemistry Workshop (Warsaw, 2012; Sandia, 2014; Seoul, 2016)
o Aerospace Thematic Workshop on “Fundamentals of Aerodynamic-Flow and Combustion Control by Plasmas,” France (2012-2013)
o 1st International Symposium on Energy Challenges and Mechanics, Scotland, United Kingdom (2014)
o 1st-11th International Conference on Flow Dynamics, Sendai, Japan, (2003-2018)
o Technical Advisory Board Member of Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2016-2019).
7. Journal Editorial Service
o Proceedings of Combustion Institute (2013-2019) Associate Editor
o AIAA Journal Associate Editor
o Combustion and Flame (2010-) Editorial Board
o Frontiers in Energy (2017-2020) Deputy Editors-in-Chief
o Chinese Journal of Aeronautics (2013-) International Editorial Board
o The Scientific World Journal (2014-) Editor
o Journal of Combustion (2009-) Editor
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