Dr. Rainer Kurz is the Principal of RKSBenergy LLC and an Adjunct Professor at San Diego State University. He retired this year as the Manager, Gas Compressor Engineering, Solar Turbines Incorporated, with responsibilities for the design, research and development of Solar’s Centrifugal Gas Compressors.

Dr. Kurz attended the Universität der Bundeswehr in Hamburg, Germany, where he received the degree of a Dr.-Ing. in 1991. He has authored numerous publications about turbomachinery related topics, including several Books, is an ASME fellow, a member of the GPPS Executive Committee, the GMRC Board of Directors, and the Turbomachinery Symposium Advisory Committee. He won the ASME Industrial Gas Turbine Award in 2013 and holds several US patents.