Space Conference Speaker

Dr. Nick Kanas is a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco. Since 1969, he has conducted research, taught, and written about psychological and interpersonal issues affecting people working in space. For over 15 years, he was an NSBRI- and NASA-funded Principal Investigator doing psychological research with astronauts and cosmonauts on the Mir and International Space Stations and during several space simulation missions. He received the 1999 Aerospace Medical Association Raymond F. Longacre Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in the Psychological and Psychiatric Aspects of Aerospace Medicine, and the 2008 International Academy of Astronautics Life Science Award. He trained at Stanford (B.A.), UCLA (M.D.), and UCSF (Psychiatry residency). His books include Space Psychology and Psychiatry; Humans in Space: The Psychological Hurdles; and Behavioral Health and Human Interactions in Space. He has over 230 professional publications.