UCL duo represent UK at astronautical congress

One current and one former student from UCL have represented the UK at the prestigious International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in South Korea. The European Space Agency (ESA) sponsored PhD student Daniela Petrova and alumnus Charles Groome (UCL Neuroscience) to attend the event, which was held in Daejeon in October. Every year ESA sponsors a small number of students from its 18 European member states to attend the IAC, which promotes awareness of space activities worldwide. Daniela is currently a final year PhD student at the Institute of Ophthalmology and aims to complete her research and medicine studies at UCL before continuing as a medical professional and researcher in the space and biomedical technology fields. At this year?s congress, she presented four papers on her visual neuroscience research on colour vision and temporal nonlinearities and their application for long-duration spaceflight. She said: ?Visual neuroscience is of great importance for the upcoming long-duration exploratory missions to the Moon and Mars. There is still much that remains unknown about the changes in colour and motion perception in microgravity.