A full CV can be found here. My google scholar profile also contains much of the information provided below.
Currently
Postdoctoral Researcher, Spacecraft department, Institute for Aerodynamics and Flow Technology, German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Education
2015, PhD in Aerospace Engineering
Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
2011, MS in Aerospace Engineering
Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
2008-2009, Graduate Student, M.Eng (not completed due to Fulbright exchange)
University of Applied Sciences Trier, Trier, Germany
2008, B.Eng in Mechanical Engineering
University of Applied Sciences Trier, Trier, Germany
2007, Visiting Undergraduate Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA
Publications
Journal Articles
Ecker T., Lowe K.T., and Ng W.F., “On the Distribution and Scaling of Convective Wavespeeds in the Shear Layers of Heated Supersonic Jets”, Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, 2016; doi: 10.1007/s10494-016-9752-3
Hood R. L., Andriani A. T., Ecker T., Robertson J. L, and Rylander C. G., “Characterizing thermal augmentation of convection-enhanced drug delivery with the fiberoptic microneedle device“, Engineering, Engineering, Vol. 1, Issue (3) : 344 -350, 2015; doi: 10.15302/J-ENG-2015077
Ecker T., Lowe K.T., and Ng W.F., “Eddy Convection in Developing Heated Supersonic Jets”, AIAA Journal, Vol. 53, No. 11, pp. 3305-3315., 2015; doi: 10.2514/1.J053946
Ecker T., Lowe K.T. and Ng W.F., “A rapid response 64-Channel Photomultiplier tube camera for high-speed flow velocimetry”, Technical Design Note, Measurement Science and Technology, 26(027001), 2015; doi:10.1088/0957-0233/26/2/027001 (Author’s version available here)
Ecker T., Brooks D.R., Lowe K.T. and Ng W.F., “Development and application of a point Doppler velocimeter featuring two-beam multiplexing for time-resolved measurements of high speed flow”, Experiments in Fluids, 55(9), 1819, 2014; doi:10.1007/s00348-014-1819-0 (Author’s version available here)
Conference Proceedings
Dumont E., Stappert S., Ecker T., Wilken J., Karl S., Krummen S., Sippel M., “Evalu-
ation of Future Ariane Reusable VTOL Booster stages”, 8th International Astronautical
Congress (IAC), Adelaide, Australia, 25-29 September 2017
Ecker T., Karl S., Hanneman K., “Modeling of Aluminum Particle Combustion in Solid
Rocket Combustion Chambers”, AIAA Energy and Power (53rd AIAA/SAE/ASEE Joint
Propulsion Conference), 2017;
doi:10.2514/6.2017-4781
Ecker T., Karl S., Dumont E., Stappert S., Krause D., “A Numerical Study on the Ther-
mal Loads during a Supersonic Rocket Retro-propulsion Maneuver”, AIAA Energy
and Power (53rd AIAA/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference), 2017;
doi:10.2514/6.2017-4878
Ecker T., Lowe K.T., Ng W.F., “Development of Doppler global velocimetry for the
measurement of eddy convective velocities”, 18th International Symposium on Appli-
cations of Laser and Imaging Techniques to Fluid Mechanics, Lisbon, Portugal, 04-7 July
2016
Ecker T., Lowe K.T. and Ng W.F., “Scale-up of the Time-Resolved Doppler Global Velocimetry Technique”, AIAA SciTech (54th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting), 2016; doi:10.2514/6.2016-0029
Ecker T., Lowe K.T. and Ng W.F., “On the Distribution and Scaling of Convective Wavespeeds in the Shear Layers of Heated Supersonic Jets”, the ninth Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena (TSFP-9), Melbourne, Australia, June 30 to July 3, 2015
Ecker T., Lowe K.T. and Ng W.F., “An experimental study of the role of core intermittency in equivalent jet noise sources”, the ninth Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena (TSFP-9), Melbourne, Australia, June 30 to July 3, 2015
Ecker T., Lowe K.T. Ng W.F., Brooks D.R., AIAA 2014-3742, “Fourth-order Spectral Statistics in the Developing Shear Layers of Hot Supersonic Jets”, 50th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, 28 – 30 July, 2014; doi:10.2514/6.2014-3742
Cadel D.R., Ecker T. and Lowe K.T , “Volumetric Vector Velocity Measurements in a Hot Supersonic Jet”, 17th International Symposium on Applications of Laser Techniques to Fluid Mechanics, Lisbon, Portugal, 07-10 July, 2014;
Ecker T., Brooks D.R., Lowe K.T. and Ng W., “Spectral analysis of over-expanded cold jets via point Doppler velocimetry”, Proceedings of 52th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA 2014-1103, National Harbor, Maryland, USA, Jan.13-17, 2014; doi:10.2514/6.2014-1103
Cadel D.R., Ecker T. and Lowe K.T, ?Time-Domain Cross-Correlation Scan DGV (CCS-DGV) for Mean-Velocity Boundary Layer Measurements”, Proceedings of 52th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA 2014-1104, National Harbor, Maryland, USA, Jan.13-17, 2014; doi:10.2514/6.2014-1104
Brooks D.R., Ecker T., Lowe K.T. and Ng W.F., ?Experimental Reynolds Stress Spectra in Hot Supersonic Round Jets”, Proceedings of 52th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA 2014-1227, National Harbor, Maryland, USA, Jan.13-17, 2014; doi:10.2514/6.2014-1227
Hood R.L., Ecker T., Andriani R.T., Rossmeisl J., Robertson J. and Rylander C.G., Paper 8576-15 “Augmenting convection-enhanced delivery through simultaneous co-delivery of fluids and laser energy with a fiber optic microneedle device ”, Proc. SPIE 8576, Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics and Treatment Applications XIII, 85760G , March 20, 2013; doi:10.1117/12.2004854
Hood R.L., Ecker T., Rossmeisl J., Robertson J. and Rylander C.G., SBC 2012-80720 “Improving Convection-Enhanced Delivery through Photothermal Augmentation of Fluid Dispersal”, Proceedings of ASME 2012 Summer Bioengineering Conference, Fajardo, Puerto Rico, USA, June 20-23, 2012
Lowe K.T., Ng W.F, and Ecker T., AIAA 2012-2273, ”Early Development of Time-Resolved Volumetric Doppler Velocimetry for New Insights in Hot Supersonic Jet Noise”, Proceedings of 18th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference (33rd AIAA Aeroacoustics Conference) , Colorado Springs, Colorado, 4 – 6 June, 2012; doi:10.2514/6.2012-2273
Ecker T., Lowe K.T. and Simpson R.L., AIAA 2012-0694, “Novel Laser Doppler Acceleration Measurements of Particle Slip trough a Shock Wave”, Proceedings of 50th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, Jan. 9-12, 2012; doi:10.2514/6.2012-694
Ecker T. and Rylander C.G., SBC2011-53834, “Modeling of magnetic targeting of therapeutic nanoparticles in a two phase microvessel flow”, Proceedings of ASME 2011 Summer Bioengineering Conference, Nemacolin Woodlands Resort Farmington, Pennsylvania, USA, June 22-25, 2011