Bio

(Summer 2022 - Present)

Sharon graduated with a Bachelor of Technology in Aerospace Engineering from Karunya Institute of Technology & Sciences, India and a Master of Science in Space Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy. During her bachelor's and master's programs, she worked on ignition delay studies of hydrocarbon fuels using shock tubes and hydrogen-based green propellants for future space propulsion applications. Her interest in propulsion led her to publish four papers in the electric and chemical propulsion domain. She worked with the space business operations department of DZH Dynamics in Spain and as a project analyst in Milan, Italy. Not afraid to take risks, she decided to change tracks and pursue her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Florida Tech, working on thermal energy and fluid flow. She will explore novel carbon dioxide capture technologies using adsorption and demonstrate their operation using computational and experimental techniques.