He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the School of Aeronautics & Astronautics at Purdue University and his Ph.D. in Aeronautics & Astronautics from Stanford University in 2005. After working at the NASA Ames/Stanford Center for Turbulence Research he joined the Aerospace Engineering department at the University of Illinois in late 2006 as an assistant professor, and holds an affiliate positions in the Mechanical Sciences & Engineering department and at NCSA. Professor Bodony is a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate fellow, an AFRL summer graduate fellow, an ARCS fellow, a senior member of the AIAA on the Fluid Dynamics TC, and a member of the American Physical Society. He received an NSF CAREER award in 2012 fluid dynamics research.