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Chris Roseman graduated with his PhD in Aerospace Engineering Sciences in August of 2022. He also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Masters in Aerospace Engineering Sciences. During his graduate studies he worked on the Hypersonic Flight in the Turbulent Stratosphere (HYFLITS) research campaign for the AFOSR. His work included the development and testing of a low-speed, low-pressure wind tunnel for testing fine-wire instruments at stratospheric conditions. He also developed a balloon simulator which used up-to-date weather forecasts to predict weather balloon trajectories all over the world. For his thesis, Chris used the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo method to investigate power loss from heated fine-wires in low-speed, rarefied flows. In the semester after earning his PhD, Chris taught a course on molecular gas dynamics and the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo method. Chris now works as a PostDoctoral Research Associate for the Center for National Security Initiatives. His current work involves the simulation and analysis of hypersonic flows using finite volume computational fluid dynamics.