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Dr. Swapnil Jagtap's Official Website
Dr. Swapnil Sarjerao Jagtap
Forbes 30 under 30 Innovator, Disruptor & Game-changer;
MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35; and
Georgia Tech 40 under 40 Innovator, trendsetter, and people to watch;
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ex-President's Ph.D. Scholar, Imperial College London; &
Ex doctoral student trainee of 'Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet', Doctoral Training Partnership, Cohort 5, of Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), UK Government (link to profile on Official Imperial webpage)
Curriculum Vitae
​Dr. Jagtap is a post-doctoral research fellow of IDEAS lab in the Aerospace Engineering department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. At the IDEAS lab, the specific focus of his research is on transformative sustainable aviation technologies with the application of model-based systems engineering and SysML. He is working on sustainable aviation technologies and advanced concepts such as electrified and hydrogen propulsion, among others, along with design and optimization of aircraft and their operations.
Prior to joining the IDEAS lab, Dr. Jagtap worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Global CO2 initiative in the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. There he worked on an industry-sponsored project on the prospect of CO2-made sustainable aviation fuel in the USA. The aspects considered in the project were environmental and social lifecycle analysis and economic examination of this emerging technology of sustainable aviation fuel manufacturing. The project required conducting market analysis and identifying future market opportunities for this sustainable fuel.
Dr. Jagtap conducted his Ph.D. research in the Center for Transport Studies, Civil and Environmental Engineering department, at Imperial College London, UK. He was named in the: Forbes 30 under 30 list of innovators, disruptors, and game-changers ('manufacturing and industry' category); Georgia Tech 40 under 40 list of innovators, trendsetters, and people to watch; and MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 list; for his disruptive and pioneering work in hydrogen aircraft technology. Dr. Jagtap's Ph.D. research was funded by the prestigious President's Ph.D. Scholarship. He was also an aligned Doctoral student trainee of the prestigious 'Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet' (SSCP), Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) Cohort 5, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), UK Government, based at Grantham Institute, Imperial College London. His research at Imperial College London focused primarily on low-carbon aviation technologies for mitigating climate change impacts and minimizing the human and environmental health impacts of aviation. Dr. Jagtap's Ph.D. research problem title was ‘Evaluation of technology and energy vector combinations for decarbonizing future subsonic long-range aircraft’. More information on present research and past research.

He did his primary and secondary schooling at Pune Vidyarthi Griha's Pune Vidya Bhawan school, which is located in Ghatkopar, Mumbai. He completed his 10+2 class from SIES College Sion, Mumbai. Swapnil completed a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering from K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering which is affiliated to the University of Mumbai with a grade of Distinction and a University rank of 41 (from approximately 5000 students). He also holds a Master of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, USA with a 4.00/4.00 GPA.
Dr. Jagtap's research interests primarily lie in the areas of energy, power, transportation, propulsion, and sustainability. He is interested in exploring the avenues of alternative ground and jet fuels, aviation, alternative power-drives, air quality, clean water supply, combustion physics, emissions, gas turbine engines for ground-power production and propulsion: multi-disciplinary design analysis and optimization, heat recovery, impacts of ground and air transportation on human and environmental health, life-cycle analysis and impact assessment, alternative, and renewable energy: solar, geo-thermal, hydro and tidal energy, thermo-fluid sciences, turbo-machinery aero-thermodynamics and flow control, turbine cooling.
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