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Sleep and Performance Research Center Seminar Series
June 12, 2025 at 10:00 am – 11:00 am PDT
Presented by Washington State University – Sleep and Performance Research Center
Sleep and circadian rhythms in pilots and astronauts
June 12, 2025
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. PST
SAC 347 or via Zoom
Meeting ID: 987 7864
8511 Passcode: 667852
Speaker: Dr. Erin Flynn-Evans, PhD, MPH, FAASM
NASA Ames Research Center
Dr. Flynn-Evans is the Director of the Fatigue Countermeasures Laboratory at NASA Ames Research Center. She holds a PhD from the University of Surrey and an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. Prior to joining NASA, she was an Instructor in Medicine in the Division of Sleep Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Flynn-Evans has extensive research experience examining the short and long-term effects of sleep loss and circadian misalignment in occupational settings, including among astronauts, airline pilots, physicians and other shift workers.
Dr. Flynn-Evans will review how sleep loss and circadian misalignment arise during spaceflight and aviation operations. She will also describe the results of studies that her team has conducted to introduce countermeasures to mitigate these risks.