Professor Goldenstein

• 2025 AIAA Associate Fellow
• 2024 Hiroshi Tsuji Early Career Researcher Award from The Combustion Institute
• 2024 Top Scholar (top 0.5% worldwide), Scholar GPS
• 2024 Spira Award for excellence in defense-related research, Purdue University
• 2024 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, Purdue University Graduate Student Association
• 2022 Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% World Scientists
• 2022 Optica Senior Member
• 2020 NASA Early Career Faculty Award
• 2019 NSF CAREER Award
• 2017 AFOSR Young Investigator Award
• 2016 DTRA Young Investigator Award
• 2009 Stanford University Mechanical Engineering Fellowship
• 2009 Summa Cum Laude, University of Michigan
• 2007, 2008, 2009 James B. Angell Scholar, University of Michigan
• 2006 George Landes Prize for excellence in technical writing, University of Michigan

Our Papers

• 2025 Walter Lempert Best Paper Award – Honorable Mention, Aerodynamic Measurement Technology, AIAA SciTech Forum
• 2024 Spotlight on Optics from Optica (formerly OSA)
• 2023 Best Paper, Solid Rockets, AIAA Aviation Forum
• 2023 Editor’s Pick, Applied Optics
• 2021 Best Paper, Applied Physics B
• 2018 Distinguished Paper Award, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
• 2018 Cover of Applied Optics
• 2016 Spotlight on Optics from OSA (Two-Time Recipient in 2016)
• 2013 Outstanding Paper Award from Measurement Science and Technology

Students

• 2025 NSF GRFP Fellowship for Trey Dorrell
• 2025 NASA NSTGRO Fellowship for John Carter
• 2023 NDSEG Fellowship for Rebekah Travis
• 2023 Vishnu Radhakrishna invited to speak at Gordon Research Seminar on Laser Diagnostics for Combustion and Energy Science
• 2022 Charlie Schwartz invited to speak at Gordon Research Seminar on Energetic Materials
• 2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for Matt Blaisdell
• 2018 NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship for Morgan Ruesch
• 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for Garrett Mathews