Bhuvana Srinivasan
Bhuvana Srinivasan is an American aerospace engineer and plasma physicist whose research involves the numerical simulation of plasma to better understand its instabilities, confinement, and interactions with matter, and for applications including plasma propulsion engines, nuclear fusion, and space plasma physics. She is a professor in the William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Washington.[1]
Education and career
Srinivasan received bachelor's degrees in both aerospace engineering and mechanical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology,[1] in 2004. She continued her studies in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Washington, receiving a master's degree in 2006 and completing her Ph.D. in 2010.[2]
She became a postdoctoral researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 2010 to 2013, and a permanent staff researcher there from 2013 to 2016. In 2014, she took a position as an assistant professor of aerospace and ocean engineering at Virginia Tech,[2] where she was promoted to associate professor and held an Endowed Crofton Faculty Fellowship before returning to the University of Washington as a faculty member in 2023.[1][3]
Recognition
Srinivasan was a 2025 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.[4]
References
- 1 2 3 "Bhuvana Srinivasan", People, University of Washington William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, retrieved 2026-05-07
- 1 2 Election of Members to the Administrative Committee on Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences, For a Four-Year Term 1 January 2019 – 31 December 2022 (PDF), IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society, August 2014, retrieved 2026-05-07
- ↑ "Bhuvana Srinivasan", New Faculty 2023, University of Washington Engineering, retrieved 2026-05-07
- ↑ Sprague, Amy (January 16, 2025), "Professor Srinivasan receives nation's highest early-career scientific honor", News & Events, University of Washington William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, retrieved 2026-05-07
External links
- PLASMAWISE Laboratory
- Bhuvana Srinivasan publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Living people
- American aerospace engineers
- American women engineers
- Women aerospace engineers
- American plasma physicists
- American women physicists
- Illinois Institute of Technology alumni
- University of Washington alumni
- Los Alamos National Laboratory personnel
- Virginia Tech faculty
- University of Washington faculty
- Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers