Science Field: Nutrition Science

Catherine “Cath” Mandigma, RND is a board-certified nutritionist-dietitian specialising in astronaut nutrition and commercial spaceflight. Cath works to advance the intersection of nutrition and space science.

Kristine Jane Atienza is an analog astronaut and registered nutritionist-dietitian with the Space Generation Advisory Council. She has participated in a number of studies about how nutrition affects astronaut physiology and psychology for analog missions such as Asclepios, CHILL-ICE, and LunAres.

Isabel Martinez is a nutrition scientist who is currently studying her PhD in Nutrition, Dietetics and Food at Monash University, Australia. Her doctoral thesis revolves around exploring gut training as a preventive and management strategy for exercise-associated gastrointestinal symptoms.