TorinÌýClark

  • Associate Professor
  • Associate Chair for Department Affairs
  • BIOSERVE SPACE TECHNOLOGIES
Torin Clark
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Office location: AERO N301

Education

PhD, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013
MS, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010
BS, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó, 2008

Professional Experience

2023 - Present, Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó
2016 - 2023, Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó
2018 - 2018, Summer Faculty 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó Fellow, Office of Naval 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó, Naval Medical 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó Unit
2015 - 2015, Visiting Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó
2013 - 2015, NSBRI First Award Postdoctoral 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó Fellow, Harvard Medical School
2013 - 2015, 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó Affiliate, Man Vehicle Laboratory, MIT
2012 - 2013, Boeing 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó Fellow, Man Vehicle Laboratory, MIT
2008 - 2013, 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó Fellow, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory

Awards (selected)

Summer Faculty 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó Fellow for the Office of Naval 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó (ONR), 2018
Outstanding Mentor Award from the Undergraduate 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó Opportunities Program, 2018
Selected for National Academies' Forum for New Leaders in Space Science, 2016
Stanley Roscoe Award for Best Doctoral Thesis from the Aerospace Human Factors Association, 2014

91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó Interests

Astronaut biomedical and cognitive issues, aerospace human factors, human sensorimotor/vestibular function and adaptation, interaction of human-autonomous systems, mathematical 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó of spatial orientation perception and motion sickness, pilot spatial disorientation, artificial gravity, human-in-the-loop experimentsÌý
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