Alex Craig

Biography

Stuart "Alex" Craig is an Assistant Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (AME) at the University of Arizona. He received his B.S. (2009) degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his Ph.D. (2015) degree in aerospace engineering from Texas A&M University. Prof. Craig was a postdoctoral research associate at Los Alamos National Laboratory from 2015 to 2016 before joining the AME Department as an Assistant Professor in 2016. He won the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award in 2018. He is a member of the Fluid Dynamics Technical committee as well as a Senior Member of AIAA and a member of the American Physical Society (APS). Dr. Craig conducts wind-tunnel experiments in the field of boundary-layer stability and transition with an emphasis on high-speed and hypersonic flows.

Degrees

• Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering
• Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States
• Stability of high-speed, three-dimensional boundary layers
• B.S. Mechanical Engineering
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States

Awards

• AIAA Associate Fellow
• AIAA, Fall 2024
• Early Career Scholars Award
• University of Arizona, Spring 2023
• Research Leadership Initiative
• Research, Innovation, and Impact; University of Arizona, Spring 2023
• Research Leadership Institute
• University of Arizona, Fall 2022
• Panel Excellence Award
• NATO STO, Fall 2019
• Young Investigator Award
• Office of Naval Research, Spring 2018