Lab Members
Current Members
Ingmar Schoegl, PhD
LSU MIE Faculty Page | ResearchGate
Dr. Ingmar Schoegl is Associate Professor at the Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department at Louisiana State University. Before starting at LSU in 2009, he obtained a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Diplom-Ingenieur in Mechatronics from the Johannes Kepler Universität in Linz/Austria. His research interests combine theoretical, experimental and numerical aspects of combustion.
Joseph Bon-Mardion
Joseph Bon-Mardion is pursuing an accelerated Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering. He is currently assembling and testing a revised micro-combustor setup to ensure it becomes fully operational in the combustion lab.
Michael Thorwart
Michael Thorwart is an undergraduate researcher at the Microcombustion lab.
Henry Hargrave
Henry Hargrave is an undergraduate researcher at the Microcombustion lab.
Erin Burnum
Erin Burnum is an undergraduate researcher at the Microcombustion lab.
Alumni
Former Postdoctoral Associates
Vinicius Sauer, PhD
Assistant Professor, California State University, Northridge
Former Graduate Students
Mubaraq Olojo
MS-NT, Fall 2025.
David Akinpelu, PhD
PhD Spring 2025.
Seyed Navid Roohani Isfahani, PhD
PhD Fall 2021 - Data Scientist, Fluke Corporation.
R. Frazee
MS Fall 2021 - Fluid Systems Engineer, Blue Origin.
Edison Chukwuemeka, PhD
PhD Summer 2021 - TD Module and Yield Engineer, Intel Corporation.
Pawan Sharma, PhD
PhD Spring 2019 - Mechanical Engineer, Lam Research.
Veerendra Narasaletti
MS Fall 2018 - Graduate Research Assistant, Texas A&M University.
Justin Robbins
MS Fall 2017 - STEM High School Teacher, La Marque High School.
James Gegenheimer
MS Summer 2017 - Air Man, US Air Force Reserve.
Mohsen Ayoobi, PhD
PhD Fall 2015 - Associate Professor, Wayne State University.
Khurshida Sharmin, PhD
PhD Fall 2015 - Professor, Dhaka University of Engineering & Technology, Gazipur.
Avishek Guha, PhD
PhD Spring 2014 - Lead Data Scientist, Air Products.
M. Sharma
MS Spring 2013 - Business Associate, Masonite.
Joe Gibson
MS Spring 2012 - Regional Lead, Air Products.
Former Undergraduate Researchers
William Ard, Stephen Baudier, Lauren Baxter, Christopher Breath, McKenzie Brown, Darria Carter, Robert Goodson, Nick Green, James Hamilton, Dakota Hebert, Madeline Kirby, Madeline Lemoine, Matt Lousteau, Nicholas Miller, Steven Mixon, Miguel Nabatilan, Tyler Pecue, Andrew Perkins, Luca Pfyffer, AJ Pisano, Nekita Pitts, Joe Poynot, Michael Roy, Andrew Sampsel, Girguis Sedky, Alec Simonson, Colin Slafkosky, Dylan Stephens, Connor Tappel, Marcus Vasquez, Wei Zhao.