Rate My Professor Harald Kleine

After completing his doctorate, Kleine held a postdoctoral fellowship at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, from 1995 to 1997, where he further developed his flow visualisation expertise. He subsequently worked for two years at Med-Eng Systems in Ottawa, Canada, on the design and testing of blast protection equipment. In 1999, he joined Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, as invited leader of the Gas Dynamics Laboratory in the Department of Aeronautical Engineering until 2002. Since then, he has served as Senior Lecturer and later Associate Professor at UNSW at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, establishing a high-speed flows laboratory that supports research in hypersonics and impact dynamics.

Kleine's research specialises in density-sensitive flow visualisation and its application to gasdynamic problems, including fully unsteady shock wave reflection, focusing, and interaction phenomena, as well as studies of blast wave physics and exterior ballistics. He has published more than 100 papers on these topics and focuses on developing improved time-resolved visualisation techniques using high-speed cameras for shock wave research. His contributions have advanced the experimental investigation of supersonic and hypersonic flows with applications in aerospace engineering.