Juan Sebastian Rubio earned his associate degree in pre-engineering in 2016 from Broward College, Florida, and his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering in 2019 from Georgia Institute of Technology. Currently, he is a fourth-year PhD student in mechanical engineering at Johns Hopkins University, where he investigates high-speed particle-laden flows. He has led and worked on three NASA projects and collaborated with the University of Michigan, Stevens Institute of Technology, CDF Research Corporation, and HZDR, a German research lab. His future agenda includes delving deeper into the interactions between particles and complex flow structures and multiphase flows in extreme environments. He is the co-president of the Mechanical Graduate Student Association at Johns Hopkins, in which he designated a DEI chair to serve as a voice for URMs, secured $32,000 for events and activities, and succeeded in talks that resulted in increased yearly stipends for all ME graduate students. As a first-generation college student and minority in academia, Rubio values the transformative power of creating an inclusive and compassionate community. He will employ handwritten lecture notes to enhance engagement, supplement lectures with videos and demonstrations, and emphasize connections between new concepts and previous material. He is committed to learning his students’ names, being a dependable resource, and paying attention to visual cues to promptly address confusion.

Research Interests

High-speed multiphase flows in extreme environments