Analog Astronaut Conference 2025

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Creating Community on Earth and Beyond

1st - 4th May at Biosphere 2, Arizona USA

Be part of our growing network. This is your community, where you have direct access to the world's analog astronauts. Build relationships, collaborate, discuss research and future missions together.

Sign up now to be the first to hear about the 2024 conference and to help shape the future of your analog astronaut community.

2024 Speakers

  • Frank White

    Author of The Overview Effect and President of Human Space Program

  • Dr. Emmanuel Urquieta

    Chief Medical Officer - NASA funded Translational Research Institute for Space Health

    Assistant Professor - Department of Emergency Medicine and Center for Space Medicine Baylor College of Medicine

  • Angelo Vermeulen

    Dr. Angelo Vermeulen

    Co-founded SEADS (Space Ecologies Art and Design), Space Systems Researcher at TU Delft, CTO at SpaceBorn United

  • Terry Trevino

    Terry Trevino

    Assistant manager of the American Public University ObservatoryDescription goes here

  • Dr Erik Antonsen

    Dr Erik Antonsen

    CTO of Advancing Frontiers

  • Dr. Michaela Musilova

    Dr. Michaela Musilova

    Astrobiologist, Speaker, Analog Astronaut and Author

  • Dr. Shawna Pandya

    Dr. Shawna Pandya

    Physician and International Institute for Astronautical Sciences (IIAS) Astronat Candidte

  • Yulia Akisheva

    Dr. Yulia Akisheva

    Freelancer Space Exploration Projects Consultant

  • Dr. Cameron Smith

    Dr. Smith is a cofounder of Pacific Spaceflight, a private think tank developing pressurized garments for human space exploration.

  • Christopher Cokinos

    Christopher Cokinos is the author or co-editor of several books, including The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars, Hope Is the Things with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds, and Beyond Earth’s Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight.

  • Kato Claeys

    Director of Operations for the HI-SEAS habitat

  • Amin Mody

    Aerospace Engineer

  • Dr. Dan Novy (NovySan)

    Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Arts at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

    Research Affiliate at the MIT Media Lab

  • Alvin Harvey

    PhD Candidate in Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT

  • Madelyn Hoying

    PhD candidate in the joint MIT and Harvard Medical School Medical Engineering and Medical Physics program, and an M.S. in AeroAstro at MIT

  • Sucheshna Patil

    Founder & CEO @MobilityZ Health | Techstars '23 | Technology Focussed Musculoskeletal Injury Care Access | Humans In Space Inc. Building the Future Of Health

  • Dr. Claire Nelson

    Forbes 50 Female Futurist, Sustainability Engineer & Innovation Consultant, Storyteller & Keynote Speaker, White House Champion of Change

  • Kai Staats

    Director of SAM

  • John Adams

    Deputy Director Biosphere 2

  • Arshleen Kaur Sahni

    Space architect and the Co-founder of World's first Cosmic Architecture research design lab

  • Yuta Kikuchi

    J-SPARC (JAXA Space Innovation through Partnership and Co-creation) Producer of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

  • Emily Apollonio

    Founder of Interstellar Performance Labs

  • Donald Jacques

    EarthSeed

  • Thorsten Eschweiler

    Geosciences and Space Studies

  • Hannah Opfer

    Sustainable Development - Building Space for Communities

  • Yuta Kikuchi

    Yuta Kikuchi is J-SPARC (JAXA Space Innovation through Partnership and Co-creation) Producer of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), as well as the Director of SPACE FOODSPHERE.

  • Cristina Star

    Space Policy

  • Nicole McGaa

    Undergraduate in MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics

  • Dr. Ren Freeman

    4-Fielded Indigenous Anthropologist

  • Dr Carmen Köhler

    CEO & Founder | AI Enthusiast | Analog Astronaut | Speaker | Futurist

  • Phnam Bagley

    Industrial designer and space architect who designs the future of everything, on and off planet Earth.

  • Prof. Takanori Shibata, Ph.D.

    Chief Senior Research Scientist | Human Informatics and Interaction Research Institute | National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

  • Prof. Joel Cuello, Ph.D.

    Professor of Biosystems Engineering, Director of the Biosystems Engineering (BioImagineering) Laboratory, and Director of Graduate Studies for Interdisciplinary Applied Biosciences (Bioeconomy and New Food Systems) at The University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.

About the Community

The Analog Astronaut community was created by Dr Sian Proctor and Jas Purewal to gather together studies, experiences and data.

Meet the Conference Organisational Team.

Thank you to our 2023 conference attendees and sponsors!

How analog research can be applied to the UNSDG

Sponsors and Partners


 
 

Venue

Biosphere 2

A unique Earth system science research facility located in Oracle, Arizona, USA, whose mission is to serve as a center for research, outreach, teaching, and lifelong learning about Earth, its living systems, and its place in the universe.