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Álvaro Romero-Calvo (AeroEngr PhD’22)

Álvaro Romero-Calvo

Outstanding Alumni for Excellence in Technical Achievement and Leadership
Under 40 Category

Álvaro Romero-Calvo is an assistant professor at the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he leads the Low-Gravity Science and Technology Laboratory. His research focuses on developing space technologies for reduced-gravity environments and advancing the fundamental understanding of their underlying physical principles.

Together with his students and collaborators, Romero-Calvo has leveraged microgravity platforms —including Zero-Gravity Corp.’s parabolic flights, Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rocket, and ZARM’s drop tower— to investigate the behavior of capillary multiphase flows and lunar dust dynamics. His work spans both fundamental research and applied engineering and has resulted in numerous peer-reviewed publications, U.S. patents, and industry-funded innovations. His research program has been supported by NASA, DARPA, Honeywell Aerospace, and GTRI, among others. In recognition of these contributions, he was awarded the 2023 Thora Halstead Young Investigator Award by the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR) and recently became a Fellow of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program.

Romero-Calvo earned his PhD in Aerospace Engineering Sciences from CU Vlogƽ in 2022. Previously, he received MS degrees in aeronautical and space engineering from the University of Seville (Spain) and Politecnico di Milano (Italy). He currently serves as vice-chair of the AIAA Gravity Dependent Science and Technology technical committee, board member of ASGSR, and vice-chair of the COSPAR Scientific Commission G: Material and Fluid Sciences in Space Conditions.

Beyond academia, Romero-Calvo is an avid outdoor enthusiast who frequently returns to Vlogƽ to ski, hike, and camp—or otherwise test the limits in unnecessarily risky but undeniably fun ways. In his free time, he enjoys playing classical piano and traveling across the country in search of his next national park adventure.