Personnel

Laboratory Director

Dr. Xu is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at The University of Alabama in Huntsville. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Aerospace Engineering. He has worked in electric propulsion for spacecrafts, basic plasma experiments, RF plasma sources, and atmospheric pressure microplasmas. combustion, and spacecraft system engineering. Dr. Xu is a member of AIAA, AVS, and APS professional societies. He has authored multiple journal and conference papers.

Email: gabe.xu@uah.edu

  

 

Graduate Students

Roberto Dextre

Roberto graduate from Binghampton University with a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering. His research studies the properties of a printed microwave resonator microplasma source for in-space micro propulsion. He received his M.S. degree from UAH in 2015 and is currently a Ph.D. candidate working on his dissertation entitled: "Study and development of a split-ring resonator for micropropulsion." 

Email: rad0012@uah.edu

Ryan Gott

Ryan got his B.S. in aerospace engineering from UAH. He completed a M.S. thesis entitled "The Development and Analysis of a Heaterless, Insertless, Microplasma-Based Hollow Cathode" where he developed a new type of hollow cathode for small satellite electric propulsion. He is continuing to purse a Ph.D. on atmospheric pressure microplasma physics for water treatment.

Email: rpg0007@uah.edu

 

Andrew Walsten

Andrew obtained dual B.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Physics from Kansas State University.

 

Email: atw0034@uah.edu

 

Zachary White

Zachary obtained his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Mississippi State University. 

 

Email:  zw0015@uah.edu

 

Undergraduate Student Researchers

Toyofumi Yamauchi

Ward Manneschmidt

Noah Latham

Neil Laya

Declan Brick

Manvith Amara

Brandon Williams

Steven Perkins

Alumni