Yvette Gonzalez, MPH is a Visiting Researcher at the University of Plymouth (UoP) Faculty of Health and a Spaceflight/Bioastronautics Researcher. She is an External Collaborator with the Space Omics and Medical Atlas team and a member of two Open Science Data Repository (OSDR) Analysis Working Groups: Multi-Omics and Female Reproduction. 

 

She contributes to the NSF-funded “Supporting and Empowering Polar Early Career Scientists through the Polar Science Early Career Community Office” led by the University of Colorado at Boulder for her climate research in the polar regions, which works to engage marginalized communities and inform adaptive and resilience strategies that shape policies.

 

She is certified with the NASA CITI Biomedical Research Basic/Refresher Course - Human Subjects Research and certified with UoP for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Information Security.  In 2023 she served as Research Lead and Crew for the first-ever space research caving analog in Portugal, CAMões, supporting a suite of human health experiments for the UoP Dental School, Centre for Eyecare Excellence, and Brain Research & Imaging Centre.

 

In addition to parabolic flight campaign research, her space medical investigations include contributions to neuroscience, ophthalmologic, and bio-monitoring team experiments on the Axiom-2, Polaris Dawn, and Galactic 05 spaceflight missions. In 2024 her international neuroscience team published their book with Elsevier, Neuroscience Research in Short-Duration Human Spaceflight. 

 

Yvette is pioneering research in applied space medical solutions for humanity and progresses this research within the context of international emergency public health, astronaut health, space ecology, and astronautics training.