Alexander John Smits AO (born December 25, 1948) is an Australian-American engineer and academic who is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Emeritus, at Princeton University.
Smits received his Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from the University of Melbourne, Australia in 1970.
Smits is the head of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at Princeton University.
[3][4] He was awarded the Batchelor Prize in 2020 for his significant research contributions to fluid mechanics over the previous decade.
[5] Smits was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the 2023 Australia Day Honours for "distinguished service to aerospace engineering, particularly in the field of fluid dynamics, and to tertiary education".