Javier Urzay

Personal bio
Dr. Javier Urzay was a Sr. Research Aerospace Engineer at the Stanford Center for Turbulence Research, where he worked for more than a decade. He was also the Associate Director of the DoE/NNSA Stanford PSAAP-III Center -- a 40+ persons team dedicated to supercomputing of laser ignition of cryogenic rocket propellants. His technical field of expertise is high-speed, chemically reacting, multi-phase turbulent flow physics and their engineering applications to aeronautics and astronautics, including rocket propulsion, supersonic combustion, and hypersonic aerothermodynamics of air and space flight systems. He taught the Stanford graduate classes ME356 Hypersonic Aerothermodynamics (he created this class), ME451C Compressible Turbulence, ME355 Compressible Flows, and ME471 Turbulent Combustion. He received his B.Sc./M.Sc. (Ingeniero Superior) degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2005 from the Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain), and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Engineering in 2006 and 2010 from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) working on theoretical combustion physics and fluid mechanics. At UCSD he taught the undergraduate class MAE180A Spacecraft Guidance (Astrodynamics). He is also a graduate of USAF Basic Military Training School and USAF Officer Training School. Dr. Javier Urzay is currently the Chief of the Rocket Propulsion Division in the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Edwards AFB. Dr. Urzay is also an Air Force Reserve Commissioned Officer (Developmental Engineer), core member of the US Air Force Reserve Hypersonics Team, and is currently assigned to the Space Systems Integration Office in the USSF Space Systems Command at Los Angeles SFB, where he works on hypersonic missile defense.