UCL-French Embassy Conférence-Débat series: Human Space Exploration
20 April 2020, 6:00 pm–7:30 pm

UCL-French Embassy Conférence-Débat series: Human Space Exploration. All welcome. Public event to take place on 20th of April 2020.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Charlene Murphy – MAPS
Location
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Harrie Massey LT25Gordon StreetLondonWC1H 0AYUnited Kingdom
Please join us for UCL-French Embassy Conférence-Débat Public Lecture.
Speakers will be:
Romain Charles, ESA-European Astronaut Centre, will speak on: "Back from Mars - Behind the scenes of the Mars 500 mission"
&
Dr Iya Whiteley, Director, Centre for Space Medicine, MSSL, UCL, will speak on :" Mission to Mars: Exploring the Human Mind"
The Lecture will take place from 18:00-19:30 followed by drinks & nibbles in the Haldane Room, UCL.
About the Speakers
Romain Charles
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Romain Charles of French nationality received a Masters degree in Engineering from the French Institute of Advanced Mechanics in Clermont-Ferrand, France and worked for 6 years in the automotive industry as a quality engineer.In 2010, he was selected by the European Space Agency to become the Flight Engineer of the Mars 500 crew. This mission of 520 days simulated a journey to Mars between the 3rd of June 2010 and the 4th of November 2011. He is now a crew support engineer at the European Astronaut Center in Cologne, Germany. His tasks cover the management of the European Space Food, the upload of private items for the astronauts, the organization and participation in the Launch and Landing campaigns in Kazakhstan and the organization of all the private video conferences between the astronauts’ families and the ISS.
More about Romain CharlesDr Iya Whiteley
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Dr Iya Whiteley - Director of the Centre for Space Medicine at Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL
The curiosity about how we can perform in extreme circumstances and exceed expectations of others, lead Iya to learn how to fly, skydive, scuba dive, among other hobbies, and study psychology and computer science – the cross disciplinary area now termed, Human Factors. Iya lead projects to develop EPSILON (Embedded Psychological Support Integrated for LONg-duration missions) toolset for exploration expeditions to the Moon and Mars; to design CET IO (Crew Expert Tool) to resolve innovatively challenges in a highly technical and alien environment while voyaging to Mars, when there is no live communication link with Earth. Prior to developing Human Behaviour Performance course for the new European Astronauts in Cologne, Iya was teaching human factors to engineers, designing military cockpits, selecting crew from over 70 nationalities for Emirates Airlines and working on understanding why in military environment experts speaking the same language do not understand each other. Now, working as a Deputy Director at the Centre for Space Medicine, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, Iya has been instrumental in developing collaboration activities between Russia, United States and UK, in particular, the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre and NASA’s National Space Biomedical Research Institute.
More about Dr Iya Whiteley