Carmen Possnig

Zia Fellow

Carmen Possnig is a medical doctor and a PhD candidate in space physiology at the University of Innsbruck. Before starting her PhD, she has spent a year as the European Space Agency Research Medical Doctor at Concordia Station in Antarctica, investigating how humans adapt to extreme environments. Her current research focuses on how the human body and mind changes in microgravity, with the aim of keeping astronauts healthy and fit on future spaceflights to the Moon and Mars. Since 2022, she is a member of the European Space Agency's astronaut reserve.