Brehm, Christoph
Associate Professor
Aerospace Engineering
3152 Glenn L. Martin Hall
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Dr. Brehm joined the Department of Aerospace Engineering of the University of Maryland (UK) in 2021 before being appointed as Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky in 2016-2020.
Before his academic appointments, he worked as a Senior Research Scientist for the Science Technology Corporation at the Advanced Supercomputing Division at NASA Ames Research Center from 2012 to 2016. He was one of the main developers of the Launch Ascent and Vehicle Aerodynamics (LAVA) solver framework and has employed LAVA to study a wide range of unsteady fluid dynamics problems, such as rocket launch environment flows, aeroacoustic noise prediction of a contra-rotating open rotor, jet impingement noise, etc.
Professional Activities:
- 2019-present: Active Member of NATO STO Group AVT-240 on Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Transition Prediction
- 2019-present: Active Member of NATO STO Group AVT-352 on Hypersonic Turbulence
- 2019-present: Conference Chair for International Conference of Computational Fluid Dynamics (ICCFD-11, 2022)
- 2019-present: Co-Organizer of the LES AIAA Workshop 2021, AIAA
Major Awards:
- 2022 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
- 2019 Outstanding Researcher Award (UK)
- 2019 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award (ONR)
- 2014 Best Young Researcher Presentation Award, 3rd AIAA Workshop on Benchmark Problems for Airframe Noise Computations (BANC-III)
- 2008 Biology, Mathematics and Physics Initiative (BMPI)-BIO5 Scholarship, University of Arizona, sponsored by National Institute of Health
- 2006 Frankfurt Airport Foundation Scholarship, 2006
- 2005 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) ISAP Program Scholarship 2005 Hermann-Reissner Foundation Scholarship