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Alex MacDonald, Research Scientist
Areas of Interest: economic history and future of space exploration and the financing, management and systems engineering of small spacecraft Education: D.Phil, Economic History, University of Oxford, UK Overview: Alex is a Research Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University and is serving as the first ever Senior Economist at NASA Ames Research Center. He is also a Clarendon Scholar and a D.Phil candidate at the University of Oxford for his dissertation “The Remote Space Age: An Economic History of Space Exploration 1610-2009”. He is one of the inaugural TED Fellows and has been involved with a number of spacecraft projects including small satellite designs for coral reef health mapping, earthquake early-detection, and micro-satellite communications constellations. |