Erin Richardson

Erin Richardson is a PhD student in Bioastronautics at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on predicting the cognitive states of operators in isolated, confined, and extreme environments and human-autonomy teaming for spaceflight. She completed her undergrad in Engineering Science at the University of Toronto with a major in Aerospace Engineering and a minor in Robotics and Mechatronics.  Erin is passionate about robotic and human space exploration and has had the opportunity to work on projects ranging from asteroid sampling and Mars rovers to studying the effects of microgravity on the human body on a parabolic flight. She recently completed her Private Pilot License and represented young Canadians to the UN at Space Generation Congress.