Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Dr. Ana Diaz Artiles is an Associate Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University. She leads the Bioastronautics and Human Performance Laboratory, where her research focuses on human health and performance in aerospace environments. Her goal is to create innovative solutions that protect human health in extreme environments, paving the way for sustained space exploration.
Her multidisciplinary approach bridges aerospace engineering, biomedical science, and human factors. Her specific areas of interest include human spaceflight, physiological and behavioral responses to altered-gravity environments, and human-systems interaction.
Dr. Diaz Artiles earned her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2015, where she investigated artificial gravity combined with exercise as a countermeasure to physiological deconditioning in spaceflight. Prior to MIT, she spent five years in Kourou, French Guiana, as part of the Ariane 5 launch team.
She holds a background in aeronautical engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) and SUPAERO in Toulouse (France). Dr. Diaz Artiles is a 2011 Fulbright Fellow and a 2014 Amelia Earhart Fellow. In 2022, she received the Thora Halstead Early Career Award from the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR).