Dr. Angie Bukley
Angie Bukley, Ph.D.
is the Senior Strategist and Chief Systems Engineer in the Strategic
Assessment & Studies Division, Civil Systems Group at The Aerospace
Corporation. Her duty station is Houston, TX, USA.
Before rejoining Aerospace, she served as Dean and Vice President for
Academics and Research at the International Space University in
Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France from September 2009 – August 2014. She is
a 1993 alumna of the ISU Space Studies Program and has been an ISU
faculty member since 1998. She acquired her undergraduate and masters
degrees at Mississippi State University and her Ph.D. at the University of
Alabama in Huntsville.
Angie has held teaching and academic administration positions at
Ohio University and the University of Tennessee. Prior to entering
academe, she was Director of Laser Applications for The Aerospace
Corporation. She has also worked with a number of defense
contractors on a wide variety of programs. She spent seven years as a
civil servant at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville,
Alabama where she directed the Large Space Structures and Controls
Laboratory and then managed remote sensing programs at the Global
Hydrology and Climate Center.
With over 90 technical publications and more than 20 awards for
technical achievement, including the 2003 University of Alabama in
Huntsville Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award, Angie is active
in many professional organizations and technical societies. Her research
interests include system engineering, control system design for
flight/orbital vehicles, and optical systems, and the study of human
cognitive functions in microgravity. She has flown nearly 1,000 parabolas
in the retired NASA Reduced Gravity Aircraft and European Space Agency
Airbus A-300 “Zero-G” aircraft to conduct research in both of these
areas.
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