Space Conference Speaker

Dr. Joannes Paulus Tolentino Hernandez is a Filipino-American nurse helping pioneer aerospace nursing. His research bridges nursing, communication, biology, and aerospace physiology to protect human health in space. He is an Associate Professor of Nursing at Helene Fuld College of Nursing in New York (2023 to present) and received the 2024 Provost Faculty Leadership Award and the 2022 Vicente Teves Locsin, Jr. Research and Scholarship in Nursing Award. He founded Stellar Life Support Technologies LLC, focusing on life support R and D. In 2025, his team earned a 10,000 USD NASA L’SPACE grant for MUSHROOM FORGE, a mycoponic system that grows edible mushrooms from crew waste, enabling 98 percent water recovery and 15 to 20 percent nutritional support, with scaling potential for the ISS and Artemis. He is Vice President-Elect of the Philippine Space Biosciences Society, Inc., and an ASRI nurse fellow, leading terrarium-like CubeSat design and VR health assessment simulation.