Awards
U.S. Early Career Combustion Investigator Award
The U.S. Early Career Combustion Investigator Award recognizes the contributions of an early career combustion investigator from within the United States as well as excellence in combustion research, the potential for future leadership in the field and service to the combustion research community. This award is presented biannually at the U.S. National Combustion Meeting.
2023 Award Winner: Derek Splitter (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Dr. Splitter received his M.S. and PhD. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison at the Engine Research Center. He currently is a senior staff research member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the Combustion and Fuel Science Group, where he studies alternative fuels and low-carbon transportation solutions, advanced materials, neutron imaging, premixed, heterogeneous, abnormal, and kinetically controlled combustion internal combustion engine processes. He is active in the engine combustion community and has authored over 90 publications and multiple patents in engine materials, fuels, and combustion processes ranging conventional spark and compression ignition processes, stochastic pre-ignition, novel bi-metallic materials, to advanced combustion processes including HCCI, RCCI, PPC. Some of his work has been distinguished with the SAE Horning Memorial, and Myers Awards, an R&D 100 finalist and winner, and he is an active member in SAE, ASME, and The Combustion Institute.
2019 Award Winner: Gregory B. Rieker (University of Colorado Boulder), for outstanding contributions in the development of advanced laser technologies for combustion diagnostics and remote sensing.
