Prof. Paul D. Ronney is a Professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA.

He received his Doctor of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the MIT.  He was the Payload Specialist Astronaut (Alternate) for Space Shuttle mission MSL-1 (STS-83, April 4 - 8, 1997) and the reflight of this mission (STS-94, July 1 - 16, 1997).

Professor Ronney has extensive research experience in micro-scale combustion, premixed flame ignition by pulsed corona discharges,propagating fronts in motile bacteria, turbulent combustion, edge flames, flame propagation in confined geometries (Hele-Shaw cells), internal combustion engines, premixed-gas combustion at microgravity, flame spread over solid fuel beds, and radiatively-driven flows and heat transfer.

Prof. Ronney has published over 70 technical papers in peer-reviewed journals, made over 150 technical presentations, holds four U.S. patents with several others pending, and has received over $10 million in funding for his research projects. He is an Associate Editor or Editorial Board Member of Combustion Theory and Modelling, Combustion and Flame, Microgravity Science and Technology, Micromachines and Progress in Energy and Combustion Science.

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