Jonathan Poggie has been a tenured professor at Purdue University in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics since 2015, with promotion from Associate Professor to Full Professor in 2020. Before that, he was a research engineer in the Aerospace Systems Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL/RQ) for about 22 years, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. In that role, he served as a Team Leader and a Branch Technical Advisor.
An internationally recognized authority in the computational, theoretical, and experimental aspects of fluid and plasma dynamics, Prof. Poggie possesses a unique breadth of experience. He has worked in the areas of hypersonic flow, laminar-turbulent transition, turbulent flow, separation unsteadiness, shock-wave / boundary-layer interaction, and plasma flow control actuators. His research emphasis has been on large-scale computation, but early in his career he worked in wind tunnel experimentation, in particular on turbulent shock-wave / boundary-layer interaction. In his recent research, he has been pursuing aerospace applications of plasma technology and developing tools to support the design of a new generation of high Mach number aircraft. His work has been funded by AFOSR, AFRL, ARL, and ONR, with computational resources from NSF XSEDE, DoD HPCMP Frontier, and DoE INCITE awards. He has recently expanded his research to include military simulations. In this role, he is the Director of Military Analytics and Computational Conflict Dynamics for the Purdue FORCES Initiative (2020-present).
Poggie received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Rhode Island in 1988 and his Ph.D. in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton University in 1995. He has served as Associate Editor of the AIAA Journal and as Chair of the AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Technical Committee. He is an ASME Fellow and AIAA Associate Fellow.