Phachara Niumsawatt joined VPAC as a Computational Engineer at the Centre for Computational Prototyping (CfCP), developing computational engineering methodology in the area of structural mechanics. He participated in the Summer Internship program to work on various structural analysis problems at VPAC in 2003. Phachara has a B. Engineering (Hons) in Aerospace Engineering and a B.Applied Science in Aviation from RMIT University. In his final year of engineering study, Phachara completed his thesis in Germany, working on implementation and development of a stochastic turbulence model for the prediction of aeroacoustic noise at Robert Bosch GmbH.