Carlos Fernández-Pello
Carlos Fernández-Pello | |
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| Alma mater | Technical University of Madrid University of California, San Diego |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Combustion |
| Institutions | Harvard University Princeton University Northwestern University University of Berkeley |
| Thesis | Laminar flame spread over flat solid surfaces (1975) |
| Doctoral advisor | Forman A. Williams |
Carlos Fernández-Pello (born in Asturias, Spain) is a faculty member of the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Mechanical Engineering. He also serves as an associate dean in the Graduate Division at Berkeley, where he oversees the Graduate Diversity Program, the American Indian Graduate Program, Graduate Division’s academic services, fellowships, publications, and websites. His research interests are in combustion, heat and mass transfer, microgravity combustion, micro and meso-scale combustion, ignition and flame propagation, smouldering and transition to flaming combustion. Fernández-Pello has been involved in teaching and research activities since the 1970s in different institutions.