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Athena Padgiotis

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Program Year:
2
University:
Texas A&M University
Field of Study:
Shock Physics
Advisor:
Scott Jackson
Degree(s):
B.S. Aerospace Engineering, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, 2021

Residency Experience(s)

Sandia National Laboratories, California (2025)

Residency Supervisor(s):
Travis
Voorhees
Residency Title:
The effect of particulate loading fraction on the dynamic strength of alumina-epoxy formulations

Sandia National Laboratories, California (2025)

Residency Supervisor(s):
Travis
Voorhees
Residency Title:
Improving the tamped RMI method to directly extract equation of state information from phase contrast images

Annual Program Review Abstracts

Fellow Poster
: Methodology for Evaluating Tamper Equation of State in Tamped RMI Experiments (
2025
)

Publications

A. Padgiotis, T.J. Voorhees, T.J. Vogler, S.I. Jackson. "Dynamic Strength and Equation of State of Epon 828 and Diethanolamine (DEA) Polymer Epoxy under Shock Loading" (2025) Journal of Dynamic Behavior of Materials.

T.J Voorhees, A. Padgiotis, B. Zusmann, S. Guo, T.J. Vogler. "Further Development of the Tamped Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability Method and Application to Molybdenum Dynamic Strength Calibration and Tabulation" (2025) Journal of Dynamic Behavior of Materials.

A. Padgiotis, S.I. Jackson, T.J Voorhees, T.J. Vogler. "Equation-of-State Measured via X-ray Phase contrast Imaging for Epon 828/DEA Epoxy" (2023) APS SCCM, Chicago, IL, June 18-23.

D.J. Lont, A.S. Venkataraman, A. Padgiotis, M. Martin, E.S. Oran. S.I. Jackson, Y. Huang, H.A. Farah. "Detonation Cell Size and DDT Distance for Ethylene-Oxygen-Nitrogen Mixtures" (2024) AIAA SciTech, Orlando, FL, January 8-12.

A. Padgiotis and S.I. Jackson. "Comparison of Velocity-Adjusted Detonation Product Equation of State Methods to a Data-Driven Model" (2023) AIAA SciTech, National Harbor, MD, January 23-27.

Awards

Stanger Endowed Graduate Fellowship, Fall 2023-Spring 2025
Advanced Photon Source Dynamic Compression Sector Beam Time Awarded based on proposal, Argonne National Lab, February 2023
Outstanding Undergraduate in Aerospace Engineering, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Spring 2021
Dean's list, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Fall 2017, Fall 2020, Spring 2021
Honor Roll, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2018, Fall 2019
Sunshine State Conference Honor Roll, Spring 2018, 2019, 2021
Presidential Scholarship, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Fall 2017-Spring 2021
Women of Excellence Scholarship, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Fall 2017- Spring 2021