Christopher R. Shaddix

Biography

Dr. Shaddix completed his PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University in 1993. He served as a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Since 1995, he has been employed as a research scientist and, more recently, as department manager at Sandia National Laboratories’ Combustion Research Facility (CRF) in Livermore, California. Dr. Shaddix has expertise in oxy-fuel combustion, the combustion and gasification of coal and biomass, the formation and oxidation of PAH and soot, and the application of optical and laser diagnostics.

Dr. Shaddix has collaborated extensively with university, industrial, and government research partners around the world. He is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Combustion Institute and is an Associate Editor of Combustion Science and Technology and Combustion Theory & Modelling. Dr. Shaddix helped initiate and has continued to actively serve on the organizing committees of the International Sooting Flames (ISF) workshop series and the Coal and Biomass Conversion (CBC) workshop series. Dr. Shaddix has authored or co-authored several book chapters and over 70 publications in major, peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Research Interests: Laser diagnostics, soot formation, coal and biomass combustion and gasification, oxy-fuel combustion, laminar and turbulent flames, and energy systems analysis. Google Scholar

Education

Professional Organizations & Leadership

• Combustion Institute
  • Fellow: 2020
  • Member of the Board of Directors: 2016 to 2022
  • Member, Executive Committee, U.S. Section: 2013 to 2017
  • Member, Executive Committee of the Western States Section [Reprints Chair, Vice-Chair, Chair, and Past Chair]: 1997 to present
  • Member: 1989 to present
• Tau Beta Pi, Engineering Honor Society
  • Member: 1985 to present

Awards

Publications