Dr. Martín Abadi
John Junkins EMERITUS
26th President, Texas A&M University
United States
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  • 1994
  • Aerospace and Transportation Engineering (A.T.E)
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  • 1994
  • Aerospace and Transportation Engineering (A.T.E)
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John L. Junkins (born May 23, 1943) is an American academic and a distinguished professor of aerospace engineering in the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University specializing in spacecraft navigation, guidance, dynamics, and control.

He holds the Royce E. Wisenbaker Endowed Chair at Texas A&M University and also serves as the Founding Director of the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at Texas A&M University, since its founding in December 2010.

On November 24, 2020, Junkins was announced as the interim President of Texas A&M University starting January 2021.

He was the interim president until May 31, 2021.

He was elected as member of the Euorpean Academy of Engineering in 1994 and promoted as Emeritus member in 2022.
 
The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents on March 5, 2021, named M. Katherine Banks as the sole finalist to be president of Texas A&M University.

On May 27, 2021, Junkins issued a farewell message welcoming his successor as the 26th President of Texas A&M University.

After his term as interim president, he returned to his positions as professor in the College of Engineering and continues as the director of the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study.