Human Performance and Physiological Monitoring for Training and Operations During Long Duration Exploration Missions

Allison Anderson is an Assistant Professor in the Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department at the University of Colorado Boulder. She graduated in 2007 with a B.S. in Astronautics Engineering from the University of Southern California with a minor in Astronomy. She received an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering and an M.S. in Technology Policy in 2011 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a Ph.D. in Aerospace Biomedical Engineering in 2014 from MIT. She received a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Space Biomedical Research Institute to study human space physiology at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. At the University of Colorado –Boulder she is also an Adjunct Professor in Integrative Physiology and an affiliated faculty member in the Biomedical Engineering program. Her work focuses on aerospace biomedical engineering, spacesuit design, wearable sensors, spacecraft habitat design, alternative reality technologies, and human physiology in extreme environments. Specifically, her work is directed toward enabling a sustained human presence in space. She is a member of the AIAA and ASMA.