Academic

Dr. Keith Crisman was awarded a PhD from the Florida Institute of Technology’s Human Centered Design program with emphasis on rescue and safety systems pertaining to human spaceflight and variable gravity environments. There, he supported Florida Tech’s Human Spaceflight Laboratory as the Health and Safety Officer as well as Research Assistant. Keith performed thorough risk analysis and developed both Adaptive Spaceship Cockpit Simulator and Intravehicular Spacesuit operational procedures supporting successful IRB application for Humans-in-the-Loop Simulations. Further, he has collaborated on FAA Commercial Space Transportation research related to analytics of the normative Human Spaceflight environment as well as collaborations with Embry Riddle University during research on IVA Spacesuit Ergonomics for Spacesuit Cabin Integration Human Factors. Dr. Crisman has completed research at various off-planet analogous simulators and recently completed a 24-hour dive at an underwater facility to perform outreach and research with graduate students as part of his AERO (Adventure, Exploration, Research, and Outreach) initiative. He continues to pursue missions within various space analog environments to include Antarctica, the Arctic, and further underwater habitats and is currently the subject matter expert on a university/community sports facility which includes a natatorium with a 20 foot deep neutral buoyancy capable ‘Science Well’ and related safety systems.