Innovation Fellow
Directors Office
Maj. Carol Bryant joined DARPA in August 2025. She is a developmental engineer in the US Air Force. Her dissertation research focused on thermal management solutions for high-temperature gas turbine engines, specifically by examining film cooling designs utilizing anisotropic composite materials and scalable testing methodologies to enable the development of next-generation gas turbine engines.
She previously served as a turbomachinery research engineer with the Air Force Research Laboratory and as an Assistant Professor at the US Air Force Academy.
Education
- Ph.D., Aeronautical Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology
- M.S., Aeronautical Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology
- B.S., Aeronautical Engineering, US Air Force Academy
- B.S., Astronautical Engineering, US Air Force Academy