Ron Warzoha, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering Department
United States Naval Academy
590 Holloway Road
Annapolis, MD 21402-5042
(410) 293-6509
warzoha@usna.edu

• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering
• Dissertation: “Manipulation and Characterization of Geometry-dependent Nanoscale Thermophysics in Nanoparticle Enhanced Phase Change Thermal Energy Storage Materials”

• M.S., Mechanical Engineering
• Dissertation: “A Computational Study of Novel Thermal Management Techniques for Solid State Current Limiters”

• B.S., Mechanical Engineering

• Nanoscale thermal transport
• Electronics cooling
• Energy systems

• Associate Professor, US Naval Academy (Jun. 2023 – Current)
• Senior Research Scientist, Johns Hopkins APL (Aug. 2022 – Jan. 2023)
• Associate Professor, US Naval Academy (Aug. 2019 – Aug. 2022)
• Assistant Professor, US Naval Academy (Jul. 2014 – Aug. 2019)

• Donovan, B.F., Gray, T.L., Wilson, A.A. and Warzoha, R.J., 2022. Unwrapping a full temporal cycle in time domain thermoreflectance for enhanced measurement sensitivity in thermally insulating materials.Review of Scientific Instruments, 93(8).
• Kumar, T., Feng, D., Yin, S., Lin, P., Mah, M., Fortman, M., Jaffe, G.R., Wan, C., Fang, C., Warzoha, R. and Brar, V.W., 2023, May. Photothermal Commonpath Interferometry of Silicon Nitride Membranes for Laser Light Sails. InCLEO: Science and Innovations (pp. SM4H-6). Optica Publishing Group.
• Warzoha, R.J., Wilson, A.A., Donovan, B.F., Smith, A.N., Vu, N., Perry, T., Li, L., Miljkovic, N. and Getto, E., 2021. A numerical fitting routine for frequency-domain thermoreflectance measurements of nanoscale material systems having arbitrary geometries.Journal of Applied Physics, 129(3).
• Warzoha RJ, Donovan BF, Vu NT, Champlain JG, Mack S, Ruppalt LB. Nanoscale thermal transport in amorphous and crystalline GeTe thin-films. Applied Physics Letters. 2019 Jul 8;115(2).

• Apgar Award for Teaching Excellence, US Naval Academy, 2018
• ASME Early Career Award, Electronics and Photonics Packaging Division, 2022
• ASME Associate Editor Award, Journal of Electronic Packaging, 2022

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)