Dr James Waldie is an Adjunct Professor at RMIT, and the Co-founder of Cape Bionics and Human Aerospace. He has over 2 decades of experience in compression garments, including research appointments at the University of California and MIT. His bioastronautics work has concentrated on skinsuit design for spacewalking and as a physical deconditioning countermeasure for astronauts during long duration spaceflight. He has been a consultant at the NASA Johnson Space Center, and was a Principal Investigator with the European Space Agency (ESA) on his Gravity Loading Skinsuit which was deployed to the Space Station in 2015 and 2017. Dr Waldie is currently leading an international programme to develop new skinsuits under an Australian Space Agency grant at Human Aerospace.

- PhD (RMIT, Aerospace Eng), Postdoc (MIT, Spacesuits)

- Bachelor of Business Administration (RMIT)

- Diploma, Space Studies (International Space University)

Dr Cable is a specialist in aerospace medicine. He was a consultant to the Royal Australian Air Force from 1996 to 2023, and now provides aerospace medical expertise to the aerospace industry through Human Aerospace Pty Ltd. He is an honorary life member of the Australasian Society of Aerospace Medicine and holds Fellowships with the Australasian College of Aerospace Medicine, the Aerospace Medical Association, the Royal Aeronautical Society and the International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine. Additionally, Dr Cable is a Professor in the Practice of Space Medicine at the College of Health and Medicine, Australian National University. The author of many scientific publications, his professional interests include altitude physiology of hypoxia and hypobaric decompression illness, hypoxia awareness training of military and civilian aircrew, space medicine, and postgraduate education in aerospace medicine for medical professionals.

- Medical Director and Co-founder of Human Aerospace Pty Ltd

- Graduate Diploma, Occupational Health and Safety Management (University of Adelaide)

- Postgraduate Diploma of Aviation Medicine (University of Otago)

- Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (University of Sydney)

Tony is an Australian medical doctor, mechanical engineer and commercial pilot. He holds fellowships with the Australasian College of Aerospace Medicine, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and the Aerospace Medical Association. He served for fourteen years with the Royal Australian Navy as a marine engineer and later, a general duties and aviation medical officer. This service period involved multiple deployments, including exchange with the RAF in the UK and active overseas NATO operations in Afghanistan. Following transfer to the active reserves in 2019 he spent three years as a Senior Aviation Medical Officer (civilian contractor) to the RAAF Institute of Aviation Medicine. As a pilot, Tony holds aeroplane commercial pilot licences in Australia, New Zealand and the United States. He has previously worked as a charter pilot conducting single-pilot IFR rural and remote flight operations throughout Australia, as well as a flight instructor in Adelaide and regional NSW. His interests are primarily in medical education, flight training and aircrew medical certification, as well as space and extreme environment medicine.

- Master of Science, Aerospace Medicine (King’s College London)

- Master of International Public Health (The University of Sydney)

- Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery (The University of Sydney)

- Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), Mechanical (The University of Technology, Sydney)

- Diploma in Aviation Medicine (Royal College of Physicians, Faculty of Occupational Medicine)

- Diploma, Space Studies (International Space University)

- PhD, Health Sciences and Technology (ETH Zurich)

- MSc, Clothing and Textile Sciences (University of Otago)

- BSc (double major), Physiology and Clothing and Textile Sciences (University of Otago)

- President, Mars Society Australia

- PhD, Geology Sedimentology, Palaeoecology (Flinders University)

- BSc (Hons), Geology, Geography, Biology and Philosophy

- PhD Candidate, Fashion and Textiles (RMIT University)

- BA (Hons), Fashion/Apparel Design (University for the Creative Arts)

- Master of Technology, Fashion and Textiles (RMIT University)

- BEng (Hons), Computer Engineering (University of Melbourne)

- BSc, Computer Science (University of Melbourne)

For 17 years Sarah has been making personalised custom fit compression garments primarily for the management of Lymphoedema and Lipoedema. Her 15 years prior as a palliative care nurse has framed her holistic approach in the provision of compression garments. Her initial training included Jobst (USA), and she now delivers training programs in the construction of medical compression garments.

- BSc Nursing (Edith Cowan University)

- Post Graduate Certificate Palliative Care (Flinders University)

Adam is a space science and physics honours graduate from RMIT with a keen interest in aerospace medicine and bioastronautics to enhance the health, safety, and performance of our space explorers and pioneers. He has worked alongside Human Aerospace researchers throughout his honours project to advance astronaut anthropometrics and further develop orthostatic intolerance garments used for spaceflight. This work provided exposure to the research and development of IVA countermeasure skinsuits, and his ambition is to continue making contributions to astronaut healthcare. Prior to Human Aerospace, he had the opportunity to work as a Citizen Scientist for the European Space Agency, where systematic reviews were conducted on the biological effects of radiation, as well as working as a Research Intern for Saber Astronautics on orbital collision manoeuvres. Adam is a student member of the Australasian Society of Aerospace Medicine and the Australian Institute of Physics.

• Bachelor of Science (Honours) - Physics (RMIT)

• Bachelor of Space Science (RMIT)

Calum graduated from the University of Otago and Wellington School of Medicine in 1994. He has held a Consultant Cardiologist post in Tauranga, New Zealand since 2004, and works in both the public and private sectors. He has a particular interest in cardiac risk assessment and Cardiac CT scanning, including a sabbatical in 2013- spending time with a number of Cardiac CT centres across the UK and Europe.

In 2018, Calum completed his Master of Aviation Medicine and Post Graduate Diploma in Occupational Medicine, both with Distinction. He has Fellowships with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and with the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. Calum is a Committee member of the Aerospace Medical Society of Aotearoa New Zealand, and Member of the Australasian Society of Aerospace Medicine, Aerospace Medical Association.

He is accredited with the Australasian Committee for CT Coronary Angiography and is a Member of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, and of the European Society of Cardiology. He is a previous Honorary Senior Lecturer with the Department of Occupational and Aviation Medicine, University of Otago; and past Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer with the University of Auckland.

Calum's extracurricular interests include keeping fit at the gym and mountain biking.

- MBChB, MAvMed(Dist.), PGDipOccMed(Dist.), FRACP, FCSANZ

Dr Anthony Rengel is an aerospace medicine practitioner, rural generalist and commercial pilot from Western Australia. He is a Fellow of the Australian College of Rural & Remote Medicine, a graduate of the University of Otago Aviation Medicine program and is due to complete his specialist fellowship training with the Australasian College of Aerospace Medicine in 2024. He brings with him a wealth of experience of working in remote and low resource environments, as well as practical operational aerospace medicine experience.

Having been flying since 15 years of age and holding a Commercial Pilot Licence, Anthony has combined a passion for remote health care and aviation into a career in aerospace medicine. This has included running fly-out general practice clinics in rural Western Australia, eight years as a designated aviation medical examiner for the Civil Aviation Safety Authority and in the last three years, as a specialist in aeromedical retrieval for the Royal Flying Doctor Service on a variety of fixed and rotary wing platforms.

In 2023, he was appointment to the Royal Australian Air Force Specialist Reserve as an Aviation Medical Officer attached to the Institute of Aviation Medicine in Adelaide. Recently, Anthony has accepted a position with the Australian Antarctic Division and will soon begin preparation to overwinter at Davis Station for the 2025 season.

He has joined Human Aerospace to bring his knowledge and experience in remote health and aerospace medicine to help consult on developing further aerospace medicine policy and capability for Australia.

- Master of Aviation Medicine (Otago)

- Post-Graduate Diploma of Aviation Medicine (Monash)

- Diploma in Child Health (Sydney)

- Post-Graduate Certificate in Aeromedical Retrieval & Transport (Otago)

- Australian Certificate in Civil Aviation Medicine (Monash)

- Certificate in Emergency Medicine (ACEM)

- Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery with Honours (UWA)

- Bachelor of Science – Neuroscience & Psychology (UWA)

Prof Christian Gericke is a Consultant Neurologist and Epileptologist, Director of Research at Calvary Mater Newcastle, Professor of Medicine and Clinical Dean at the University of Newcastle, and Professor at the University of Queensland School of Public Health. He serves as Squadron Leader and Aerospace Neurologist in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and as an Aviation Consultant in Neurology for the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA).

Before coming to Newcastle in 2023, he was the Clinical Director of Neurology at the Prince Charles Hospital in Brisbane and Professor of Medicine at the University of Queensland. Previously, he was a Professor at the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth (2010-12) and the University of Adelaide (2006-10) and worked as Consultant Neurologist, Epileptologist and Clinical Neurophysiologist at leading hospitals in the UK, including King’s College Hospital London and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.

He studied medicine at the Free University of Berlin and as a DAAD scholar at Tufts and Harvard Medical Schools. From 1993-99, he trained in neurology at the Charité University Hospital in Berlin, followed by epilepsy fellowships at the University Hospitals of Strasbourg and Geneva.

In 1996, he was awarded an MD research doctorate (magna cum laude) in cognitive neurology from the Free University of Berlin. He also earned an MPH from the University of Cambridge, an MSc in health policy from the London School of Economics, an MBA from Deakin Business School, and a PhD in health systems research from Berlin University of Technology.

He serves on the International Aerospace Neuroscience Consortium (IANC) and the International League against Epilepsy (ILAE) Standards and Best Practice Council, as Chair of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurologists (ANZAN) Therapeutics Committee, as Chair of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Ethics Section, after having served as the Vice-Chair of the AAN Neuroepidemiology Section.

FACEM, FAWM, DipDHM (SPUMS), DipAdvDHM (ANZCA), A/FACAsM, A/FAsMA, ACCAM (Monash), MBBS(hons), BMedSci

Dr Alicia Tucker is an Australian Diving & Hyperbaric Medicine Physician with additional Specialist qualifications in Emergency Medicine and Aerospace Medicine. A native of Tasmania, Australia, the gateway to Antarctica, it was a natural progression for Alicia to become involved in Extreme Environment Medicine.

Alicia has worked as a Retrieval doctor with the Royal Australian Flying Doctors Service, a Ship’s Physician to Antarctica, an Event and Expedition Medical Officer and in International Medical Repatriation.

Alicia is currently working as a Staff Specialist in Emergency Medicine and Diving & Hyperbaric Medicine at the Royal Hobart Hospital, Tasmania. The Department of Diving & Hyperbaric Medicine’s chamber is unique in the Southern Hemisphere in that it is dual capable, Hyperbaric to 6ATA and Hypobaric up 100K ft. Alicia regularly completes ‘fitness to fly’ and ‘fitness to dive’ medicals and is currently developing an Altitude Physiology Training Program and undertaking research in Aerospace Medicine.

Alicia has a particular interest in Space Medicine and in the development of protocols for ‘fitness for spaceflight’ and in risk modification for commercial spaceflight participants, as well as finding solutions for managing acute illness and injury beyond Low Earth Orbit. As a Dive Physician, Alicia is also interested in the development of decompression schedules for use in exploration atmospheres.

John is a Director of the Australasian Society of Aerospace Medicine (ASAM) and the Chair of ASAM’s Space Life Science Committee. He is a member of the Australian Space Agency’s Applied Space Medicine and Life Sciences Technical Advisory Group, and a delegate for the Agency’s Australian Civil Space Delegation to the European Space Agency.

He has previously worked for NASA and the European Space Agency developing medical support and training for astronauts, and he holds a position as a Senior Lecturer in Space Medicine with the University of Tasmania. He remains actively engaged in Space Medicine research and regularly collaborates with partner organisations around the world. Dr Cherry specialises in the fields of emergency medicine, anaesthetics and rural and remote medicine and he has Fellowships with the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine, the Royal Aeronautical Society, the Royal Geographical Society, the Royal Astronomical Society and the Geological Society, and an Associate Fellowship with Australasian College of Aerospace Medicine.

He works as a Head Office doctor for the Australian Antarctic Division having completed an over-winter deployment as an Antarctic Medical Practitioner with the Australian Antarctic Program in 2021. He has recently returned from a deep field deployment to Antarctica as a Field Leader and Antarctic Medical Practitioner, where he led a team across the continent to Little Dome C, one of the most isolated and challenging environments on Earth. Prior to medicine, he worked as an astrophysicist, commercial helicopter pilot, high school science teacher, and expedition leader.

Gail Iles is an Associate Professor in Physics and Space Science at RMIT University.  After gaining a PhD in experimental physics from Leicester University in England, Gail began her scientific career with the European Space Agency in France where she researched the properties of materials on board the ‘vomit comet’ - a position which saw her complete over 500 parabolas in the A300 “Zero-G” Airbus. From there she became an astronaut instructor at the European Astronaut Centre training ISS Expedition crew members how to operate equipment in the Columbus laboratory.

In 2014 Gail moved to Australia to work at the Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Organisation, transferring to RMIT in 2017. Gail is the Manager and Founder of the Bachelor of Space Science at RMIT. Gail is a member of the NASA Human Research Program as a Radiation expert, a member of two Technical Advisory Group to the Australian Space Agency (Space Medicine & Life Sciences, and Access to Space), a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics and member of the Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists.

In 2024 Gail was named ‘Female Space Leader of the Year’ at the Australian Space Awards. Gail is the Science Correspondent on the 3AW Mornings with Tom Elliot radio show. In her spare time, Gail enjoys flying; receiving her Private Pilot’s Licence in 2023.

Julie is Professor in Physiotherapy at the School of Health Sciences and Social Work at Griffith University (Brisbane), and the Clinical Director of the Mater Health Services Back Research Clinic. She is a Fellow of the Australian College of Physiotherapists. Her current research interests include exercise/ motor control training for low back pain, imaging (ultrasound imaging and MRI) and prediction/ prevention of sports injuries, including concussion. At an international level, Julie has been a collaborative scientist on several international multidisciplinary analogue, advisory groups (Topical Teams) and astronaut studies with the European Space Agency. Julie was also a member of the Space Medicine and Life Sciences Technical Advisory Group for the Australian Space Agency.

Siobhan Banks is a Professor of Psychology at UniSA and Director of the Behaviour-Brain-Body Research Centre.

Her research focuses on the interactions between biology, behaviour, and technology. She collaborates with 24/7 industries like healthcare, transportation, defence, and aerospace to enhance worker performance, health and well-being. With over $11M in research funding, she has earned the 2019 Australian Council Graduate Research Award for Industry Engagement and was a 2021 finalist for the ADM Women in Defence Awards.