University of Cincinnati - College of Engineering

James A. Miller, BS AE '69, Elected to National Academy of Engineering

James A. Miller, BS AE '69, is the most recent University of Cincinnati elected to the National Academy of Engineering, entering in the Class of 2008.

Miller is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at the Combustion Research Facility of Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, CA, where he has been employed since receiving his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1974. At Cornell University Miller conducted research with S. H. Bauer, P. C. T. de Boer, and E. L. Resler, Jr.

James A. Miller

Miller's research interests lie in both combustion chemistry and theoretical chemical kinetics. He has published extensively in both the physical chemistry and combustion literature.

In August 2007 Miller was awarded the Bernard Lewis Gold Medal by The Combustion Institute at the Thirty-First International Combustion Symposium held in Heidelberg, Germany.

Miller is best known for his work on the nitrogen chemistry of combustion (i.e. NOx formation and control) and the gas-phase chemistry leading to soot formation. His current research stems from his previous experience with nitrogen and soot chemistry and is a collaboration with Stephen Klippenstein, currently at Argonne National Laboratory. It involves the theoretical description, using master equations, of reactions that take place over multiple, interconnected potential wells and of the thermal dissociation of weakly bound free radicals. A feature article on this topic, by Jim and Stephen, appeared September 14, 2006 in The Journal of Physical Chemistry A.

Miller is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the American Chemical Society and The Combustion Institute. He has served or is serving on the editorial advisory boards of the International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, The Journal of Physical Chemistry, Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, and Combustion and Flame. Jim and Connie Miller have been married since 1971 and have 2 children, Abigail and Nathan.

For more information about Dr. Miller, please see the following links:

http://public.ca.sandia.gov/crf/staff/staffPage.php?sid=jamille
http://www.ca.sandia.gov/crf/viewArticle.php?cid=CRFV28N6-C

Email: jamille@sandia.gov