Michael Smart

Associate Professor Michael Smart, "formerly of NASA" is Chair and Professor in Hypersonic Propulsion at the University of Queensland.

"Head of the UQ HyShot Group and the Chair of Hypersonic Propulsion, Professor Michael Smart, said the new MOU continued UQ's history of collaboration with NASA over the past 20 years.

“Exchanges of staff and students and research collaborations between UQ and NASA were pioneered by Australia's first professor of space engineering, UQ's Emeritus Professor Ray Stalker,” he said."