Alec D. Gallimore is the Provost and Chief Academic Officer of Duke University. Gallimore is a leader in the field of advanced spacecraft propulsion and founded a laboratory at the University of Michigan that is developing the plasma drive system that may ultimately propel humans to Mars.
Gallimore’s work has been recognized by lifetime achievement awards such as the Wyld Propulsion Award from the AIAA, the Ernst Stuhlinger Medal from the Electric Rocket Society, and induction into the National Academy of Engineering.
Gallimore is the author of over 360 publications, has worked at NASA (JPL and GRC), and has been the advisor to 44 Ph.D. students and 14 master’s students.
Gallimore received his B.S. degree in Aeronautical Engineering, and then at Princeton, where he received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Engineering with a focus on Plasma Physics and Advanced Spacecraft Propulsion.
