Ahmed F. Ghoniem

Ahmed F. Ghoniem is a mechanical engineer and academic who is a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he directs the Center for Energy and Propulsion Research and the Reacting Gas Dynamics Laboratory. His research focuses on combustion, computational fluid dynamics, energy conversion, and low-carbon energy systems.

Education and career Ghoniem received a BSc in mechanical engineering from Cairo University in 1973 and an MSc in mechanical engineering from the same institution in 1975. He earned a PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1980.

Before joining MIT, he held research and teaching appointments at Cairo University, the University of Calgary, and the University of California, Berkeley, and was a research scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. He joined MIT in 1983 as an assistant professor, became an associate professor in 1986, and was promoted to professor in 1992.

Research Ghoniem's research has included high-performance computing in turbulent reactive flow, combustion dynamics and active control, transport-chemistry interactions in thermochemical and electrochemical systems, gasification, and integrated low-emission energy systems with carbon dioxide capture.

Honors and awards Ghoniem received the ASME James Harry Potter Gold Medal in 2015, the AIAA Propellants & Combustion Award in 2016, and the Bernard Lewis Gold Medal from The Combustion Institute in 2024. He was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2016 and a Fellow of The Combustion Institute in 2018.

Selected publications