Dr. Charles Hoke serves as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering and Technology at UNSW Canberra, part of the University of New South Wales. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Mechanics from the University of California, San Diego (2000), a Master of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University (2001), and a PhD in Aeronautical Engineering from UNSW Canberra (2022). His professional career commenced as an Officer in the United States Air Force (2000-2008), where he worked as an Aeronautical Engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory's Air Vehicles and Space Vehicles Directorates (2000-2004). Subsequently, he was an Assistant Professor at the United States Air Force Academy (2004-2008), directing courses in Fundamentals of Aeronautics, Aerodynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Advanced Aerodynamics. From 2008 to 2012, he served as a Multi-Disciplined Engineer in the Aerodynamics Department at Raytheon Missile Systems, acting as Lead Aerodynamicist for the Aegis Ashore Standard Missile Program. Joining UNSW Canberra in 2012 as a Lecturer, he progressed to Senior Lecturer in 2018 and held additional roles including Program Coordinator for the Capability Technology Management Program (2014-2022), Learning and Teaching Quality Coordinator (2020-2022), and Deputy Head of School, Education (2024).

Dr. Hoke's research focuses on aerodynamics, including computational investigations of flapping foil power generation, active flexibility and morphing effects, hypersonic fluid-thermal-structural interactions, and near-wall effects. He supervises higher degree by research students on topics such as hypersonic aerothermoelastic experiments on buckled panels and influences of fluid-thermal-structure interactions on hypersonic vehicles. Key publications include 'Enhancing the Power-Extraction Efficiency of a Flapping Foil by Active Morphing' (AIAA Journal, 2023), 'Nonlinear shock–structure interaction in a hypersonic flow' (Nonlinear Dynamics, 2023), 'Effects of time-varying camber deformation on flapping foil propulsion and power extraction' (Journal of Fluids and Structures, 2015), and 'Characterization of Conformal Heaters for Measurement of High-Speed Fluid-Thermal-Structural Interactions' (AIAA Aviation Forum, 2024). He has contributed to conferences on oscillating-foil power generation and grid techniques in computational fluid dynamics. At UNSW, he teaches aircraft design capstone courses, aerospace vehicle technologies, and aeronautics fundamentals at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and delivers short courses on Aeronautics and Avionics Fundamentals. His expertise encompasses aircraft design, hypersonic aerodynamics, flapping wing aerodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, and wind-tunnel modeling.

Professional Email: Charles.Hoke@adfa.edu.au