Sheyna Gifford

Sheyna E. Gifford, MA, MSc, MD, started working for NASA in 1997. Her first project was a Mars Spacesuit design proposal for the Lunar and Planetary Institute. Since then, she has worked on a satellite project (HESSI), a cosmology research project (DEEP2), written for Astrobiology Magazine, and, most recently, gotten onboard the mission to simulated Mars. She hopes to use her degrees in Neuroscience, Medicine, Biotechnology and Journalism to do great space science and medicine, and communicate those discoveries to the world. She has written extensively for academic and literary journals, including Aeon, Narratively, Nautil.us, and the Huffington Post.