Alex joined SSI as an Affiliate Researcher in 2025. Prior to coming to SSI, he received his dual degree Ph.D. in Space Science and Scientific Computing from the University of Michigan in 2019. Following his PhD, Alex remained at the University of Michigan as research faculty in the Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering department, receiving the 2022 Departmental Faculty Award. During this time, he served as Co-Investigator and lead of the Science Data System for the NASA Sun Radio Interferometer Experiment (SunRISE), a Heliophysics Mission of Opportunity launching in late 2025. He then spent some time in industry, working on synthetic aperture radar data processing, imaging, and tracking algorithms for space debris.
Alex's research focuses on simulating, processing, and interpreting measurements from space-based low frequency radio arrays. He has been a part of several concept array teams that are at various stages of development including SunRISE, RELIC, PRIME, Synchrotron, FARSIDE, and FarView. These arrays have a wide range of scientific targets, including solar type II and III radio bursts, radio galaxies, exoplanets, Earth's transient magnetospheric emissions like auroral kilometric radiation, Earth's background synchrotron emission from its radiation belts, and early universe cosmology using the redshifted 21-cm signal.