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Agata Maria Harasymczuk

Also known as: Agata Kolodziejczyk

AGH University of Krakow

ORCID iD 0000-0002-7030-3555
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About

She obtained her PhD in Neurobiology from the University of Stockholm. Winner of the FNP Rojszczak Prize for combining biology with astronomy. Three-time winner of the first prize in the Global Space Balloon Challenge competition for taking astrobiological experiments into the stratosphere. She worked in the Advanced Concepts Team of the European Space Agency as a biomimetics expert. Currently, she is involved in scientific research and development of new laboratories at Space Technology Centre AGH UST in Kraków. Beside academia, she organizes analog simulations of space missions and trainings for future space tourists and commercial astronauts, as well as all people who want to develop their career in the space sector. Initiator of the creation of the first analog space base simulator in Poland (presented in the Cité de l'espace ), currently the founder and co-owner of the Analog Astronaut Training Center habitat in Rzepiennik Strzyżewski. Together with her partner Matt Harasymczuk, she runs only organization in Poland dealing with analog human studies in space biology and medicine (www.astronaut.center).

Employment

  • AGH University of Krakow Leader of Bioastronautics Group-Habitat
    2022 - Present

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