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Dr Tamara Sopek

Dr Tamara Sopek
Name Tamara Sopek
Pronoun She/Her/Hers
Position Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow For Women In STEMM
Section School of Engineering
Location Toowoomba Campus
Phone +61 7 4631 2722
Extension 2722
Email
Qualifications MEng Zagreb , MFluidDyn von Karman , PhD Qld
Homepage https://www.unisq.edu.au/news/2022/04/high-speed-career
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Biography

Dr Sopek has been working at UniSQ as the Vice Chancellors' Postdoctoral Fellowship for Women in STEMM since January 2022. This position supports UniSQ’s commitment to improving career pathways for women in STEMM as part of the Science in Australia Gender Equity Athena Swan Action Plan. Dr Sopek is a member of the Hypersonics and Rocketry group situated at the Institute for Advanced Engineering and Space Studies. Her research interests are in hypersonics and optics. She is also a part of the School of Engineering and teaching Introduction to Thermofluids. Prior to the current position, Dr Sopek completed a two-year postdoctoral position in the hypersonics group at the Oxford Thermofluids Institute, University of Oxford. She obtained her doctoral degree at the Centre for Hypersonics at the University of Queensland, her work focussing on laser diagnostics applied to hypersonic flows. She also holds a MSc from the von Karman Institute of Fluid Dynamics, where she worked on the topic of boundary layer transition in hypersonics. Dr Sopek started her tertiary education in her home country of Croatia, where she obtained a Master in Aeronautical Engineering.

Research Career


  • Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering ( 401200 )
  • Atomic ( 510200 )
  • Hypersonic Propulsion And Hypersonic Aerothermodynamics ( 400106 )
  • Aerospace Engineering ( 400100 )
  • Computational Methods In Fluid Flow ( 401204 )
  • Nonlinear Optics And Spectroscopy ( 510203 )

Hypersonics, optical diagnostics, aerothermodynamics, fluid dynamics, space


AIAA member


  • Institute for Advanced Engineering and Space Sciences (IAESS)

Teaching


MEC2106 Introduction to Thermofluids


1 Years

Supervision


  • Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering ( 401200 )
  • Atomic ( 510200 )
  • Hypersonic Propulsion And Hypersonic Aerothermodynamics ( 400106 )
  • Aerospace Engineering ( 400100 )
  • Computational Methods In Fluid Flow ( 401204 )
  • Nonlinear Optics And Spectroscopy ( 510203 )