MIT Kavli Institute Directory

Alex R. Bruccoleri

Graduate Student, Aero/Astro Student

Affiliations:MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT Kavli Institute

I grew up in NJ and went to high school with an interests in rockets, physics and space exploration. I studied engineering and physics at Dartmouth College and finished in 2007. Following college I entered MIT to study Aeronautics and Astronautics with a focus on space propulsion and am currently pursuing a Ph. D. with a focus on nanotechnology for space instrumentation.

Representative publications:

A. Bruccoleri, P Mukherjee, R. K. Heilmann, J. Yam, M. L. Schattenburg, and F. DiPiazza, Fabrication of Nanoscale, High Throughput, High Aspect Ratio Freestanding Gratings, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 30, 06FF03 (2012); A.Bruccoleri, R.Leiter, M.Drela, and P. Lozano,Experimental Effects of Nozzle Geometry on Flow Efficiency at Low Reynolds Numbers, Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 28, No. 1 (2012), pp. 96-105.

Honors and awards:

National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship, Awarded for Fall 2007-Summer 2010.