Elaine Oran

She is currently a professor at Texas A&M University. She worked at the department of aerospace wngineering at the University of Maryland as a Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering from 2013 to 2019. She continues to serve as an emeritus scientist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and is an adjunct professor at the University of Michigan and a visiting professor at Leeds University. She is also a senior visiting professor in the Institute for Advanced Study at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and a distinguished visiting professor at Tsinghua University.

She has published extensively in journals and has written a textbook, Numerical Simulation of Reactive Flow (1987, 2005), which is reported to be the most frequently used textbook on the topic.

Elaine Oran joined the Plasma Physics Division at United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in 1972. In 1978, she joined the Laboratory for Computational Physics. She worked to start the Center for Reactive Flow and Dynamical Systems, and became its head. In 1988, she became the senior scientist for reactive flow physics.

Elaine Surick attended school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Bryn Mawr College awarded her a bachelor's degree in both physics and chemistry (1966). She then attended Yale University, where she received a master's degree from the department of physics (1968) and a Ph.D. from the department of engineering and applied sciences (1972).