Maxfield Arnson Receives Rackham Pre-Doctoral Fellowship

We are pleased to share that our PhD student, Maxfield Arnson, has been awarded the Rackham Pre-Doctoral Fellowship. This fellowship recognizes outstanding doctoral students at the University of Michigan and supports the final stages of dissertation research.

Maxfield’s work focuses on the design of optimal thermal management system architectures for advanced propulsion aircraft. His research addresses a key challenge in electrified aviation: evaluating thermal management at the aircraft level, where system performance, requirements, and technology assumptions jointly determine what constitutes an “optimal” solution. By formulating this as a large-scale, combinatorial design problem and applying uncertainty-aware optimization methods, his work enables more scalable, efficient, and practically feasible electrified aircraft concepts.

We are proud to see Maxfield’s contributions recognized and look forward to the completion of his dissertation!

You can read more in Michigan Aero’s announcement here.