Dr. James P. Szybist

Head of the Propulsion Science Section · Oak Ridge National Laboratory · company speakers →

Dr. James P. Szybist is the head of the Propulsion Science Section at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and additionally leads the Fuel Property technical team within the U.S. Department of Energy’s Co-Optima initiative and is on the leadership team of the DOE partnership to advance combustion engine (PACE) consortium. His research interests center around developing a better understanding of engine and fuel interactions, including the autoignition processes that result in knock in spark ignited engines and autoignition in low temperature combustion engines, and using kinetics to develop an improved conceptual understanding of the phenomenon. He is a Fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and the 2015 recipient of the SAE Harry L. Horning Award. He received his Ph.D. from Penn State University in Fuel Science in in 2005 and then joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a post-doc.

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