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DSTO scientist elected Fellow of ATSE

Allan Paull gained his PhD in applied mathematics at the University of Queensland (UQ) and subsequently obtained a MEngSc within the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at UQ.

Research Leader in Applied Hypersonics, Dr Allan Paull

He has worked for 25 years in hypersonics, primarily in the field of supersonic combustion.  He is a new member of the Australian Academy of Technical Sciences.  He has been employed at NASA Langley Research Center (USA), DLR (Goettingen, Germany) and GASL (NY, USA) and UQ where he held the position of an ARC Professor, an ARC Professorial Research Fellow and a UQ Research Professor.  

As a research fellow he was primarily employed as an experimentalist and was a member of a team that was the first to demonstrate positive thrust of a scramjet.  At UQ he was also the HyShot flight program manager, leading a team that completed four hypersonic flight tests of scramjet related experiments, one of which was the first to demonstrate supersonic combustion in flight.  He was also the technical lead to HyCAUSE, a Mach 10 flight combustion experiment.