Engineer
U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Anna Oldani, PhD, is an engineer at the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) where she leads numerous sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) projects, both with academia through the Aviation Sustainability Center (ASCENT) Center of Excellence and with industry under the Continuous Lower Energy, Emissions, and Noise (CLEEN) Program. Her work focuses on the certification, production, and integration of SAF to ensure long-term aviation sustainability. She is passionate about discovering new routes to develop and deploy SAF. Oldani received her PhD in mechanical engineering from the Univ. of Illinois where she focused on fuel characterization and alternative jet fuel integration.