Dr. Jacqueline O’Connor is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University where she directs the Reacting Flow Dynamics Laboratory. Her research focuses on unsteady combustion phenomena in power and propulsion technologies, including power generation gas turbines, aircraft engines, and diesel engines, using high-speed laser diagnostics. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California in the Engine Combustion Department. She received a BS from MIT in Aeronautics in 2006, and a MS and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2009 and 2012. She is the recipient of the 2018 Dilip R. Ballal Early Career Award from the ASME International Gas Turbine Institute, the 2016 Irvin Glassman Young Investigator Award from the Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute, and the 2015 John Johnson Award for Outstanding Research in Diesel Engines from the Society of Automotive Engineers.