Biography

Dr. Daoru (Frank) Han is an Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology. Previously he was an Assistant Research Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His research interests include Gas/Plasma Modeling; Space Propulsion; Computational Plasma Physics; Plasma Dynamics; and Large-Scale and High-Performance Computing.

Dr. Han earned a Bachelor of Engineering in Power Engineering of Aircraft (Aeronautical Propulsion) from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2005; a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering degree with a thesis focused on aerodynamics from Missouri S&T; and a Ph.D. in Astronautical Engineering from the University of Southern California (USC), where he spent four years developing and applying first-principle-based plasma simulation models on supercomputers to resolve fundamental plasma physics phenomena arising from space explorations.

Research Interests

Plasma aerospace applications; Space propulsion; Plasma-material interactions; Plasma physics and rarefied gas dynamics; High-performance computing

Education

• 2015 – Ph.D. in Astronautical Engineering, University of Southern California
• 2011 – M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology
• 2009 – B.S. in Aeronautical Propulsion, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics