Dr. Bruinsma is the lead engineer on the IMISPPS project. He obtained his doctorate in Chemical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, CO in 2005 and joined Pioneer Astronautics after graduation. Dr. Bruinsma completed his undergraduate work at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL with a major in Integrated Science. While an undergraduate he was a research assistant studying the distribution of different types of “dumbbell” buckyball structures using a drift tube. During his undergraduate years, he also spent a summer working for a non-profit organization to develop a small bath production facility for the production of biodiesel. Dr. Bruinsma received his Masters in Chemical Technology at the Technical University of Eindhoven. While in Eindhoven, he spent a semester working in the glass research center of Royal Philips Electronics experimentally determining the dependence of the liquidus temperature of television glass on its composition. At the Colorado School of Mines Dr. Bruinsma studied the phase equilibria of methanol and hydrocarbon fluids at high pressures. In his thesis he presents his high and low pressure phase equilibria measurements together with a statistical mechanics model that predicts the molecular interactions of methanol and hydrocarbons. His research was focused on the application of methanol to prevent gas hydrate formation in subsea oil and gas pipelines. Relevant publications Bruinsma, D.F.M., Notz, P.K., Desens, J.T., Sloan, E.D., Methanol losses to the hydrocarbon phases in offshore pipelines and its effect on economics SPE 84040, ATCE Oct. 5-8, 2003 Bruinsma, D.F.M., Desens, J.T., Notz, P.K., Sloan, E.D., A novel experimental technique for measuring methanol partitioning between aqueous and hydrocarbon phases at pressures up to 69 MPa Fluid Phase Equilibria, (222- 223) 311-315, 2004.