Dr. Alec Gallimore, Chief Executive Officer

Personal Webpage: http://www.engin.umich.edu/dept/aero/people/faculty/gallimore/
Email: gallimore@edapplications.com

Dr. Alec Gallimore is an electric propulsion expert with more than one hundred citable publications in the field.

Over the past fifteen years, Dr. Gallimore has conducted experiments with Hall thrusters, ion thrusters, magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) thrusters, and arcjets, and has implemented a number of laser and probe based diagnostic techniques to characterize EP engines.

Dr. Gallimore also has a significant amount of experience testing arcjets with nitrogen and hydrogen propellants. Dr. Gallimore is routinely called upon to assist in the flight qualification of Hall thrusters and ion engines, and has generated much of the plume data used by spacecraft designers and plume-modeling code developers throughout the world.

Dr. Gallimore (with Dr. Gilchrist) has employed microwave diagnostics techniques to characterize arcjet and Hall thruster plumes under AFOSR sponsorship and has designed MPD thrusters and Hall thrusters for NASA.

Dr. Gallimore is patenting a new two-stage Hall thruster, and is developing two new plasma engines for NASA.