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Dr. Juan J. Alonso
Director of the Fundamental Aeronautics Program Office
Image left: Dr. Juan J. Alonso, Director of the Fundamental Aeronautics Program Office. Image credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
As the Director of the Fundamental Aeronautics Program Office, Alonso is
responsible for the overall planning, management, and evaluation of the
Mission Directorate’s efforts in conducting high-quality, cutting-edge
fundamental aeronautics research across all flight regimes, from
subsonic through hypersonic. In addition, he will support the Associate
Administrator in a broad range of Mission Directorate activities,
including strategic and program planning; budget development; program
review and evaluation; and external coordination.
Prior to joining NASA, Alonso was a professor in the Department of
Aeronautics & Astronautics at Stanford University. He founded and
directed the Aerospace Design Laboratory where he specialized in the
development of high-fidelity computational design methodologies to
enable the creation of realizable and efficient aerospace systems. His
research involved a large number of applications including transonic,
supersonic, and hypersonic aircraft, helicopters, turbomachinery, and
launch and re-entry vehicles. He was also a member of the NASA Advisory
Council's Aeronautics committee.
Alonso has authored over 100 technical publications on the topics of
computational analysis and design, multi-disciplinary optimization,
numerical methods, and high-performance parallel computing, and is the
recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including the American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Best Paper Award, the
Stanford Chapter AIAA Professor of the Year Award, the Ray Grimm
Memorial Prize in Computational Physics, and the Terman and Princeton
University Honorific fellowships. He serves on the AIAA
Multidisciplinary Optimization Technical Committee, the Computational
Fluid Dynamics General Notation System Steering Committee and the Center
for Turbulence Research Steering Committee, and is a reviewer for a
number of archival journals.
Alonso received a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautics & Astronautics from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991 and a PhD in
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University in 1997.
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