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Florian Selch, Research Staff
Areas of Interest: study of artificially induced hypometabolic state for space applications, development of small satellite projects for life science experiments, and research into countermeasures against the negative space environment effects on humans Education M.S. Molecular Biology, 2007, University of Vienna Overview: Mr. Florian Selch joined Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley as a Space-Life-Sciences researcher in November 2007, shortly after receiving his Masters of Science degree in Molecular Biology from University Vienna, Austria. Over the last 5 years, Mr. Selch has participated in several Astro- and Space Biology projects including two space-flown NASA experiments: (1) FIT – Fungal Pathogenesis, Immunity and Tumorigenesis Study – an experiment flown onboard the space shuttle studying the effects of the space environment on Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies and their immune system, and (2) ICE-FIRST – International Caenorhabitis Elegans Experiment First – consisting of C.elegans worms flown onboard a Russian space mission. Mr. Selch has worked with research groups at the German Aerospace Center in Cologne, the Australian Centre for Astrobiology in Sydney, the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, and the NASA Ames Research Center, where he has returned to and is now working as a contractor through Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley. |