Professor Michael Smart

Michael Smart graduated with a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from The University of Queensland (UQ) in 1985 and received a PhD from Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York in 1995. He then spent 10 years as a research scientist in the Hypersonic Airbreathing Propulsion Branch at NASA’s Langley Research Center, before returning to UQ in 2005. In 2007 he was appointed Professor and Chair of Hypersonic Propulsion. As head of UQ’s HyShot Group, he conducts scramjet flowpath related research, with particular emphasis on flight applications.