About

I'm an aeronautical engineer at Joby Aviation, where I perform conceptual aircraft design, mission analysis, propeller design, and aerodynamic, aeroacoustic, and aeroelastic analysis. I've worked on Joby's recent electric VTOL aircraft—the Lotus UAV and our high-performance air taxi—and NASA's LEAPTech and X-57 (SCEPTOR) electric aircraft projects. I hold a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University and M.S. and Engineer's degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University, where I worked on quiet propeller design in the Aircraft Aerodynamics and Design Group (ADG).

Publications

  • Transition Performance Of Tilt Propeller Aircraft

    Alex Stoll, G. Veble Mikić

    2022 • VFS

  • Development of eVTOL Aircraft for Urban Air Mobility at Joby Aviation

    Alex Stoll, J. Bevirt

    2022 • VFS

  • Aerodynamic And Acoustic Design Of The Joby Aviation eVTOL Propeller

    J. Bain, Alex Stoll, G. Veble Mikić

    2021 • VFS

  • A CFD Based Method to Model Aerodynamic Interactions in Complex eVTOL Configurations for Realtime and Medium Fidelity Simulations

    G. Veble Mikić, J. Bain, J. Bevirt, Alex Stoll

    2021 • VFS

  • NASA Remakes the Airplane Wing With Electric Propulsion and a Whole Lot of Propellers

    Alex Stoll

    2018 • IEEE Spectrum

  • Comparison of High-Fidelity Computational Tools for Wing Design of a Distributed Electric Propulsion Aircraft

    K. A. Deere, S. Viken, M. Carter, J. K. Viken, J. M. Derlaga, Alex Stoll

    2017 • AIAA

  • Design Studies of Thin-Haul Commuter Aircraft with Distributed Electric Propulsion

    Alex Stoll, G. Veble Mikić

    2016 • AIAA

  • Design and Performance of the NASA SCEPTOR Distributed Electric Propulsion Flight Demonstrator

    N. K. Borer, M. D. Patterson, J. K. Viken, M. D. Moore, S. Clarke, M. E. Redifer, R. J. Christie, Alex Stoll, et al.

    2016 • AIAA

  • Fuselage Boundary Layer Ingestion Propulsion Applied to a Thin Haul Commuter Aircraft for Optimal Efficiency

    G. Veble Mikić, Alex Stoll, J. Bevirt, R. Grah, M. D. Moore

    2016 • AIAA

  • Quiet, Reliable, and Efficient! Joby Aviation Paves the Way for an Electric Future

    Alex Stoll

    2015 • Dynamics Magazine

  • Comparison of CFD and Experimental Results of the LEAPTech Distributed Electric Propulsion Blown Wing

    Alex Stoll

    2015 • AIAA

  • Design and Testing of the Joby Lotus Multifunctional Rotor VTOL UAV

    P. Sinha, Alex Stoll, E. V. Stilson, J. Bevirt

    2015 • AIAA

  • Lotus: Two Aircraft in One

    Alex Stoll

    2015 • Aerospace America

  • Conceptual Design of the Joby S2 Electric VTOL PAV

    Alex Stoll, J. Bevirt, P. P. Pei, and E. V. Stilson

    2014 • AIAA

  • Drag Reduction Through Distributed Electric Propulsion

    Alex Stoll, J. Bevirt, M. D. Moore, W. J. Fredericks, N. K. Borer

    2014 • AIAA

  • A Multifunctional Rotor Concept for Quiet and Efficient VTOL Aircraft

    Alex Stoll, E. V. Stilson, J. Bevirt, P. Sinha

    2013 • AIAA

  • Design of Quiet UAV Propellers

    Alex Stoll

    2012 • Stanford University (thesis)

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