Eric Loth

About

Prof. Eric Loth serves as the Rolls-Royce Commonwealth Professor of Engineering.  Loth’s current research focuses on extreme-scale wind turbines, energy-storage systems, multiphase flow, and aerospace propulsion.  With his students, he has authored over 200 journal papers, 10 patents, and has led more than $16M in research funding in his career.  He is a Fellow of ASME, AIAA, and was named a Yip Visiting Fellow of the Magdalene College at Cambridge University (U.K.).  Dr. Loth has given invited talks at several universities (including Harvard, MIT, Oxford, Penn, Princeton), several national labs (including NETL, NREL, NRL, SNL), and several conference and events (including ARPA-E Congressional Showcase, MIT A+B Applied Energy Symposium, International Conference on Applied Energy, and the World Energy Storage Conference).  He was the panel chair for NAE Energy Research at IMECE and for NAE Aerospace Research at AIAA Sci Tech.  His research has been covered by several media outlets (including American Scientist, CNBC, Daily Mail, LA Times, MIT Technology Review, New Scientist, Popular Science, and USA Today).

Education

B.S. ​Aerospace Engineering, West Virginia University

M.S. Aerospace Engineering, Pennsylvania State University​

Ph.D. ​Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan