Aeroacoustics Consultant 
36 Seaway Avenue, Christchurch, Dorset, BH23 4EX
 UK Tel: +44 1425 279544, Cell +44 7770210537. 
e-mail: brian.j.tester@outlook.com

Dr. Tester has worked extensively on a wide range of theoretical and experimental aeroacoustics problems associated with aero engine noise. He received post-graduate degrees in Gas Dynamics and Aeroacoustics from Southampton University. He worked for six-years at Lockheed-Georgia Research Laboratories, but most of his professional career has been spent at Rolls-Royce in the UK, working on aero engine noise and also on the project management of R&T programs, including a number of major European collaborative research projects. He took early retirement from Rolls-Royce in 2002 and re-joined the ISVR, Southampton University where he worked as Principal Research Fellow until 2020. He now works as an independent Aeroacoustics Consultant. He has published over 50 technical papers. His current research interests include application of advanced measurement techniques to fan and jet noise and sound radiation through exhaust nozzles including shielding and tone haystacking. In 2012 he co-chaired, for the second time, an Independent Expert Panel that advised CAEP on the noise of future aircraft, which recommended an increase in stringency of 7 EPNdB (cumulative) relative to the current Chapter 4 levels. This recommendation was adopted by the ICAO Council as the new Annex 16, Vol I, Chapter 14 noise standard for jet and propeller-driven aeroplanes. He received the 2009 CEAS Aeroacoustics Award for ‘his pioneering contributions to the aeroacoustics of turbofan engine noise.
 

Educational Background 
• 2008: Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 
• 2002: M.Sc., Computational Engineering, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany 
• 2000: Dipl.-Ing. (FH), Mechanical Engineering, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany Professional and Research Experience 
• Since 10/2021 Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 
• 08/2018 – 09/2021 Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 
• 02/2013 – 07/2017 Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA Honors and Awards 
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2021) 
• Research Excellence Award of The Combustion Institute (2020) 
• Thermophysics Best Paper “Modeling Heatshield Erosion due to Dust Particle Impacts for Martian Entries” (AIAA 2020-0254) 
• JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Fellowships for Research in Japan (2019) 
• W. M. Keck Foundation Faculty Scholar, 2017-2021 
• Mercator Fellow, 2017-2020 
• Bernard Lewis Visiting Lecturer Fellowship, 2017 
• Hiroshi Tsuji Early Career Researcher Award, 2017 
• Distinguished Paper on Turbulent Flames, 36th International Symposium on Combustion, 2016 
• Terman Faculty Fellow Award, 2013 – 2015 
• NASA Early Carrier Faculty Award, 2015 
• AFOSR Young Investigator Award, 2010 
• ONR Young Investigator Award, 2010 
• NSF Career Award, 2009 
• Rackham Faculty Research Grant, 2009 
• Academic Excellence Award, Munich University of Applied Sciences, 2000 
• BMW Scholarship, 1995 – 2002 Research Interests 
• Combustion noise and computational modeling of reacting flows 
• Development of numerical methods, high-order schemes, and combustion modeling 
• X-ray scattering and spectroscopy to study non-equilibrium processes 
• Multiphase flows, high-pressure and supercritical flows, combustion and turbulence 

Further Information: http://ihmegroup.stanford.edu
 

Professor 
Politecnico di Torino 

Francesco Avallone is Full Professor in Fluid Dynamics at the Politecnico di Torino since May 2023. Previously, he was Tenured Assistant Professor at the Delft University of Technology, where he did also a two-years PostDoc. He received both his MSc and PhD degrees from the University of Naples Federico II. His PhD focused on non-intrusive techniques for boundary layer transition in hypersonic flows. Since 2015 he works in the field of Aeroacoustics. He has been awarded the ERC StG in 2022 to study the flow acoustic interaction over an acoustic liner. He has worked in several international and national projects and has been author and co-authors of more than 80 journal publications and 80 conference papers. He has been supervisor of more than 10 PhD candidates, 6 of them already obtained the PhD. His research interests are airfoil self-noise, rotor noise, acoustic liners, HVAC and fan noise. He is interested in both the physical understanding of the noise generation mechanisms and the development of novel noise reduction technologies. For his research he uses both experimental and computational techniques. A list of publications can be found here.
 

Prof. Julio A. Cordioli graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil, in 2000 and received his PhD in 2006 also from UFSC, with part of his PhD research developed at the University of Cambridge, UK. He has previously worked for EMBRAER (Brazil) on the design of noise control treatments for aircrafts, and for the ESI Group (USA), as an acoustic scientist on the development of vibroacoustic numerical methods. Since 2011, he has been an Associate Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department, UFSC. His main research interests include: numerical methods in vibro-acoustics, aircrafts interior and exterior noise, aeroacoustics and vibration monitoring.
 

Kanaaldijk 20
9493 TE De Punt 
The Netherlands 
+31-6-43815222 
pieter.sijtsma@psa3.nl 
http://www.psa3.nl/ 

Research area 
Aeroacoustic post-processing techniques applied to wind tunnels, aircraft engines, and wind turbines. 
Career 
Since 2015: Visiting researcher TU Delft, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, ANCE group Since 2014: Private company: Pieter Sijtsma Advanced AeroAcoustics B.V. (PSA3) 1992 - 2014: National Aerospace Laboratory NLR, senior scientist aeroacoustics 
Recent EU-projects 
ADAPT, CIRRUS, AMICAL 
Main research partners 
Safran (FR), Deutsche WindGuard (DE) 
Education 
1987 - 1992 PhD Applied Mathematics, University of Groningen 
Thesis: On the hydrodynamics of optimum sculling propulsion of ships and on the linearized lifting surface theory 
1981 - 1987 MS Applied Mathematics (cum laude), University of Groningen 
Awards 
NLR “Dr.ir. B.M. Spee” Award 2006 
CEAS Aeroacoustics Award 2024 
Publications 
See https://www.psa3.nl/publications-2/
 

Chancellor’s Professor 
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 
University of California, Irvine 
Irvine, CA 92697-3975 
USA 
Tel: (949) 824-6590 
Email: dpapamos@uci.edu 
Web: supersonic.eng.uci.edu 

Dr. Dimitri Papamoschou is Chancellor’s Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Aeronautics at Caltech in 1987; his thesis on supersonic shear layers illuminated for the first time the effect of compressibility on turbulent growth rate under a variety of freestream conditions. Upon joining UCI as a faculty member in 1988, he focused his research on the evolution of turbulent eddies in compressible shear layers, using advanced laser diagnostics, and developed correlations for the convective velocity that are widely used by researchers in the field. In the mid-1990s he got involved in the field of jet noise and built aeroacoustic facilities with multi-stream capability and phased array acoustical diagnostics. He developed and patented the fan flow deflection noise reduction method for turbofan engines and has collaborated extensively with NASA and industry on reducing aircraft noise. His work included the analysis of engine cycles for supersonic aircraft incorporating the noise reduction technology. More recently, Dr. Papamoschou has advanced new nozzle concepts for quiet three-stream jets, pioneered low-order methods for the prediction of noise from complex multi-stream jets, and formulated inverse acoustic methodologies that include the treatment of continuous-scan sensors. He developed a unique small-scale ducted fan rig that has been the basis of development of noise source models for emission from the outlet and the inlet, as well as modeling of propulsion-airframe integration. Dr. Papamoschou is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), recipient of the 2017 AIAA Aeroacoustics Award, and currently chairs the AIAA Aeroacoustics Technical Committee. He served as an Associate Editor of the AIAA Journal for 12 years and is currently member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the AIAA Journal. At UCI he has served in various administrative roles, including department chair, associate dean, and interim dean.