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Juan Alonso
Vance D. and Arlene C. Coffman Professor and the James and Anna Marie Spilker Chair of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
BioProf. Alonso is the founder and director of the Aerospace Design Laboratory (ADL) where he specializes in the development of high-fidelity computational design methodologies to enable the creation of realizable and efficient aerospace systems. Prof. Alonso’s research involves a large number of different manned and unmanned applications including transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic aircraft, helicopters, turbomachinery, and launch and re-entry vehicles. He is the author of over 200 technical publications on the topics of computational aircraft and spacecraft design, multi-disciplinary optimization, fundamental numerical methods, and high-performance parallel computing. Prof. Alonso is keenly interested in the development of an advanced curriculum for the training of future engineers and scientists and has participated actively in course-development activities in both the Aeronautics & Astronautics Department (particularly in the development of coursework for aircraft design, sustainable aviation, and UAS design and operation) and for the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME) at Stanford University. He was a member of the team that currently holds the world speed record for human powered vehicles over water. A student team led by Prof. Alonso also holds the altitude record for an unmanned electric vehicle under 5 lbs of mass.
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Roberto Alonso-Mori
Senior Scientist, LCLS - Linac Coherent Light Source
Current Role at StanfordSenior Scientist, Biological Sciences Department Head, and Group Lead of the Biochemistry and Condensed Phase Chemistry Group at LCLS (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
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Burton Alper
Lecturer, Graduate School of Business - Other Faculty
BioBurt has dedicated his entire career to making exceptional communication a competitive advantage. He helps leaders articulate their ideas more effectively through improved content development, storytelling, and presentation techniques.
He serves as a Lecturer and Presentation Coach at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. There, he helps students on all forms of communication ranging from business writing to oral presentations. As part of Stanford’s IGNITE faculty, Burt works with entrepreneurs in India and China to help them deliver compelling investor pitch presentations. He has worked with senior leaders in Stanford’s Athletic Department and several distinguished faculty members at Stanford’s School of Medicine.
Burt also consults with entrepreneurs, executives and corporate teams outside of Stanford who are preparing for high-stakes and high-profile presentations. His coaching ranges from initial content strategy through delivery coaching and anxiety management.
Prior to his work in the presentation coaching arena, Burt spent 12 years at Catchword Branding, a firm he co-founded in 1998. During his tenure there, he served as the head of strategy and business development. -
Holly Alpine
Affiliate, Ethics In Society
BioHolly Alpine is an environmental leader with more than a decade of experience mobilizing employees and shaping climate advocacy inside the tech sector. She co-founded the Enabled Emissions Campaign, which holds Big Tech companies accountable for using advanced technologies to help fossil fuel companies extract oil and gas more cheaply and efficiently. Before launching this advocacy campaign, Holly co-founded and scaled Microsoft’s global employee sustainability network to 10,000+ members. She also founded the company’s Community Environmental Sustainability program, which established corporate policy for investing in sustainability projects in datacenter communities worldwide. Holly played a central role in strengthening Microsoft’s climate commitments by creating direct channels between employees and senior leadership and elevating climate advocacy as a shared responsibility across the company. She also has served on the boards of American Forests and Zero Waste Washington, and is an accomplished plant-based mountain athlete.
