Alec Gallimore

Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Initiatives at the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies and Director of the Plasmadynamics and Electric Propulsion Laboratory, Professor Gallimore's primary research interests include electric propulsion, plasma diagnostics, space plasma simulation, electrode physics, and hypersonic aerodynamics/plasma interaction. He has extensive design and testing experience with a number of electric propulsion devices including Hall thrusters, ion engines, arcjets, 100-kW-class steady MPD thrusters, and multimegawatt pulsed coaxial plasma accelerators. He has implemented a variety of probe, microwave, and optical/laser plasma diagnostics, and has graduated 16 Ph.D. students and 11 M.S. students in the field of electric propulsion. Professor Gallimore has more than 190 archival journal articles and conference papers, and 2 book chapters in electric propulsion. Professor Gallimore is also director of the NASA-funded Michigan Space Grant Consortium