David Alexander

David Alexander is a professor of astrophysics at Rice University in Houston TX. He also serves as the Director of the Rice Space Institute. Prof. Alexander was awarded an OBE in 2018 for services to the space industry, received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2004 and was appointed a Kavli Frontiers Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences in 2006. He has served on many professional committees including the NASA Advisory Council’s Heliophysics Subcommittee. He was named a GlobalScot by the Scottish government and was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Astronautical Society in 2018. He is on the Board of Directors of the Houston Spaceport Development Corporation in 2021 and was recently appointed to the Texas Aerospace Research and Space Economy Consortium Executive Committee (TARSEC). He was recently appointed a Rice Faculty Scholar at the Baker Institute for Public Policy.