Michael E. Mueller, Ph.D.

Michael E. Mueller is the associate chair and professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University. Since 2020, he has been jointly appointed as a faculty researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and he is currently editor of the Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. He received a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 2007 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford University in 2009 and 2012, respectively. His research interests encompass computational modeling of multi-physics turbulent flows with applications to energy, propulsion, and the environment as well as broader areas of computational and data sciences. He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Among other awards and recognitions for his research, he has received the Hiroshi Tsuji Early Career Researcher Award from the Combustion Institute and the Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award from the Army Research Office. He has also received the Princeton University Graduate Mentoring Award and been named to the Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science Commendation List for Outstanding Teaching in twelve semesters.