Madelyn MacRobbie

Madelyn (Hoying) MacRobbie is a Ph.D. candidate in the joint MIT and Harvard Medical School Medical Engineering and Medical Physics program, with a focus on bioastronautics. Her Ph.D. research in the Tearney Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital investigates aerospace physiology leading to novel medical devices for long-duration spaceflight. She is concurrently pursuing an M.S. in AeroAstro at MIT, where she investigates the influence of mission architecture on crew dynamics in surface exploration missions. MacRobbie graduated from Duquesne University with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and a B.A. in Physics. With experience at NASA and the Central Intelligence Agency, MacRobbie works to blend advances in physiology research with a practical understanding of field expedition approaches to develop useful medical systems for space exploration. She is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, a Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellow, and has been named an Emerging Space Leader by the International Astronautical Federation.