Aerospace and Space Sciences

Seerat Maqsood is focusing her studies in life sciences area, especially in Cellular and Molecular Biotechnology. She has done her schooling from the Eaglets Public School, Bandipora and GHSS, Amira Kadal, Srinagar. She subsequently completed her bachelor’s degree in general biotechnology from the Dolphin Institute, Dehradun, India. She is now a Space IVF researcher at SpaceBorn United and an active member at NASA GeneLab. She is involved in multiple space bioscience and exploration projects. Her expertise is in reproductive medicine and tissues engineering. Her vision is enabling human reproduction in space by improving the IVF techniques on earth. She is also involved in multiomics, which is helping in studying the effect of radiation, cosmic rays and genetic changes on human astronauts in space.

Faiqa Anbreen is a Modelling and Simulation Engineer at Safran solving complex engineering problems and analysing thermo-fluid behaviour of aircraft systems and components. She has done her schooling from DPS Srinagar. She has been intrigued by space travel early on in her life. She is a PhD Candidate in Engineering and Computational Mathematics at California State University with research focused on solving fundamental problems of physics in fluids which has applications in aerospace industry.

Aasooda Malik is an analog astronaut and a researcher in Physics in the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland. She was a student of Minto Circle School, Srinagar and calls her early educational years extremely transformative. She pursued her Bachelors in Mechanical engineering from SSM college of science and technology and Masters in computer Aided mechanical and Power engineering from Politechnika Wroclawska. She was raised with an innate fascination for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and embarked on a journey of intellectual discovery from an early age. She thirsts for exploration that extends beyond the confines of traditional academia. She is a space enthusiast with an interest to bridge the gap between Physics and Philosophy.