Shane Ross Email & Phone Number

Dr. Ross is a professor of aerospace and ocean engineering at Virginia Tech.• Youtube link: is.gd/RossLab | Educating 24/7 with free online lectures• High-Impact Scholarship: 100 journal publications, 7,500 citations, h-index 41• Several articles in Nature journals, Scientific American, other high-profile outlets• Many Teaching Awards: including two Certificates of Teaching Excellence• Authored free book on space mission design in the 3-body problem• Multiple AIAA Best Paper Awards and multiple NASA Innovation Awards• Top 100 article in media attention in 2020 out of 3.4 million papers published that year• Social Media: 50k followers; posts and videos receive 1M views per year• Excellent Mentorship: 15 PhDs & 2 post-docs advised, 5 are now professors• Funding: $15 million, $4M personal share, from Space Force, NSF, NASA, USDA, AFRL, NIHNotable Funded Projects• Space Force-funded multi-university initiative on xGEO Cislunar operations• NSF CAREER Award in Dynamical Systems• NASA Microbial Transport Along Trans-Atlantic Dust Superhighways • NSF Data Science Corps (Multi-university undergraduate education grant with HBCUs)• USDA Pollen Transport and Isolation Distances• NSF IGERT (Interdisciplinary graduate education development grant), 25+ PhDs trained• NSF HAZARDS (Collaborative multi-university, interdisciplinary grant with MIT, Berkeley) The Ross Dynamics Lab at Virginia Tech specializes in nonlinear dynamics, performing mathematical modeling, simulation, visualization, and experiments with applications in several different fields, including: unique applications of drones and other unmanned aerial systems, patterns of dispersal in oceanic and atmospheric flows, strongly coupled translational-rotational dynamics, passive and active aerodynamic gliding (e.g., flying snake dynamics and autorotating maple seed samaras), ship dynamics and capsize avoidance, biomechanics, dynamic buckling of flexible structures, transport at and across the air-water interface, disease spread, vehicle dynamics, orbital mechanics, chemical physics, and causality analysis in complex systems.Professor Ross has spoken to thousands of people at dozens of universities worldwide including MIT, Caltech, Stanford, Cornell, Princeton, UCLA, Zurich, Leiden and Barcelona. His research has been featured in the pages of Nature, Scientific American, New Scientist, Science, Times of London, BBC, and several other international news outlets, including those in India, Russia, Finland, Poland, Turkey, Brazil, and China.