Erik Antonsen is Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, with a joint appointment in the Center for Space Medicine. He was formerly Assistant Director for Human Systems Risk Management, and before that Element Scientist for Exploration Medical Capabilities, both at NASA. He has a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Illinois and an MD from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and provided medical support for the Red Bull Stratos and StratEx high altitude skydive missions.

Kris Lehnhardt is Element Scientist for Exploration Medical Capabilities in the NASA Human Research Program, and Associate Professor and Attending Physician at Baylor College of Medicine. He has an MD from Western University, a BSc in Bio-Medical Sciences from the University of Guelph, and serves as a Medical Specialist reservist in the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Dr. Mark Shelhamer is on the faculty of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, where he started as a postdoctoral fellow in 1990. He has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Drexel University, and a doctoral degree in Biomedical Engineering from MIT. At MIT he worked on sensorimotor physiology and modeling, including the study of astronaut adaptation to space flight. He then moved to Johns Hopkins where he continued the study of sensorimotor adaptation with an emphasis on the vestibular and oculomotor systems. He has applied nonlinear dynamical analysis to the control of eye movements, including investigations of the functional implications of fractal activity in physiological behavior. In parallel with these activities, he has had support from NASA to study various aspects of sensorimotor adaptation to space flight, amassing a fair amount of parabolic flight (“weightless”) experience in the process. He also serves as an advisor to the commercial spaceflight industry on the research potential of suborbital space flight. Dr. Shelhamer is the author of Nonlinear Dynamics in Physiology: A State-Space Approach, has published over 80 scientific papers, and has had research support from NIH, NSF, NASA, NSBRI, and the Whitaker Foundation. From 2013 to 2016 he was on leave from his academic position to serve as Chief Scientist for the NASA Human Research Program at the Johnson Space Center. In this role, he oversaw NASA’s research portfolio to maintain human health and performance in long-duration space flight. 

Jennifer Fogarty is Director of Applied Health and Performance at Sophic Synergistics. She previously held several positions with the NASA Human Health and Performance Directorate, including serving as Chief Scientist of the Human Research Program. She has a PhD in Physiology from Texas A&M University, a BS in Biology from Stockton University, and is co-editor of Fundamentals of Aerospace Medicine.