Dr Emma Tucker
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About
Dr Emma Tucker is an astrophysicist and medical doctor whose unique background allows her to study the effects of space travel on the human body. After completing a PhD in astrophysics and then a medical degree, she undertook an aerospace medicine clerkship at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston Texas. Dr Tucker is currently an emergency medicine registrar (Australasian College for Emergency Medicine) at the Calvary Emergency Department in Canberra as well as a senior research fellow in space medicine at the ANU where she does research on the effects of microgravity on the cardiovascular system. Dr Tucker is an ANU InSpace Mission Specialist in space medicine.
Affiliations
Research interests
Research interests
Space Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Digital Twins, Computational simulations of physiology
Available student projects
- Space Medicine: Computational Simulations of the cerebrovascular system
- Space Medicine: Long duration spaceflight and the cardiovascular system
- Space Medicine: Fitness to fly – congestive heart failure
- Visiting the Solar System – Cardiovascular effects on Solar System Planets
Current student projects
Erica Coxon (undergraduate research project 2021): "Circulation in Microgravity"
Projects
- Space Medicine: Computational Simulations of the cerebrovascular system, Supervisor
- Space Medicine: Fitness to fly – congestive heart failure, Supervisor
- Space Medicine: Long duration spaceflight and the cardiovascular system, Supervisor
- Visiting the Solar System – Cardiovascular effects on Solar System Planets, Supervisor
Teaching information
Areas of expertise
- Medical And Health Sciences
- Galactic Astronomy
Location
c/- Medical School, Florey Building, 54 Mills Road, ANU, Acton ACT 2601