Robert Miller to Receive the ASME Gas Turbine Award

NEW YORK, June 1, 2012 – Robert Miller, D.Phil, reader in energy technology at the University of Cambridge, UK, will be honored by ASME.  He is being recognized for the co-authored paper titled “The Impact of Real Geometries on Three-Dimensional Separations in Compressors.”  He will receive ASME’s Gas Turbine Award.

The award recognizes outstanding contributions to the literature of combustion gas turbines or gas turbines thermally combined with nuclear or steam power plants.  It will be presented to Dr. Miller during the ASME TURBO EXPO 2012, which is being held in Copenhagen, Denmark, June 11 through 15.

Miller obtained his master’s degree and D.Phil at St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford, UK, in 1993 and 1997, respectively.  His D.Phil research, supervised by Prof. Roger Ainsworth and sponsored by Rolls Royce, was on the subject of transonic turbine blade row interaction.  After earning his D.Phil, he continued his close collaboration with Rolls Royce as the Spooner junior research fellow at New College, Oxford.  In 2001 he was appointed to a lectureship at the University of Cambridge and to a fellowship at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.  In 2009 he was promoted to reader.  

His research at the university’s Whittle Laboratory covers a wide range of flows in aero engines, gas turbines and tidal turbines; and, at present, involves industrial collaborations with Rolls Royce, Mitsubishi and Siemens.

Miller is a member of the International Gas Turbine Institute’s (IGTI) Turbomachinery Committee.  He has served as review organizer and session chair (2004-11), and was vanguard chair of Unsteady Flows (2004).  He received IGTI’s Turbomachinery Committee Best Paper awards (2007, 2008 and 2010) and Heat Transfer Committee Best Paper Award (2005).

His honors include the Institution of Mechanical Engineers’ Thomas Hawksley Gold Medal (2010) and an American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Air Breathing Propulsion Best Paper Award (2008).

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