10 Facts About Phil Ligrani

Phillip Meredith Ligrani is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

Phil Ligrani is the Eminent Scholar in Propulsion Research Center.

Phil Ligrani returned to the United States in 1984, where he was an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the US Naval Postgraduate School, a position he held until 1992.

Phil Ligrani joined the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Utah in 1992 and became a full professor there in 1997.

From 2006 through 2009 Ligrani was the Donald Schultz Professor of Turbomachinery in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford.

Phil Ligrani returned to the US in 2010, when he was appointed to the Oliver L Parks Endowed Chair at Saint Louis University's Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology.

In September 2014 Phil Ligrani was appointed eminent scholar in propulsion and professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

Phil Ligrani has published extensively in the field of propulsion and fluid dynamics.

Phil Ligrani's research has focused on turbomachinery, convective heat transfer, fluid mechanics, microfluidics, fractionation and separation science.

Phil Ligrani has served as a consultant to various government agencies and aerospace companies on a range of projects related to aerospace propulsion and energy conversion.