Professor
University of Texas at El Paso
Dr. Evgeny Shafirovich is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). He received his M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Department of Aerospace Propulsion at the Moscow Aviation Institute in 1981 and PhD in Chemical Physics from the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1988. Before joining UTEP in 2008, he conducted research at the Russian Academy of Sciences, CNRS (Orléans, France), the University of Notre Dame, and Purdue University. His research interests include combustion of propellants and other energetic materials as well as combustion synthesis of advanced materials for energy and aerospace applications.