MIT World Speakers

Dava Newman Sm '89, PhD '92

Dava Newman specializes in investigating astronaut performance across the spectrum of gravity. She is currently the Principal Investigator (PI) on the MICR0-G space flight experiment to quantify astronaut intravehicular activity (IVA) onboard the International Space Station. Previously, she has been the PI for Space Shuttle experiments dealing with load sensors and astronaut workloads.

Newman earned a Ph.D. from MIT in Aeronautics, Biomed and Engineering.