Dr. Emily E. Matula
EVA Instructor
NASA Johnson Space Center (Leidos)

About the seminar:
How do astronauts train to work in space? As an extravehicular activity (EVA) instructor, Dr. Matula primes the ISS crew for spacewalks and maintaining the extravehicular activity mobility unit (EMU). Dr. Matula will explain the space suit, training facilities at NASA Johnson Space Center, and what it feels like to work inside the suit. She will also cover her path to becoming an EVA instructor and flight controller-in-training, and how Michigan engineering has helped her in her career.

About the speaker:
Dr. Emily Matula is currently at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX working as an EVA instructor/flight controller-in-training. She earned her undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), masters degree in space engineering from the University of Michigan, and her PhD in Bioastronautics (human spaceflight) at the University of Colorado (Boulder). Her passion is human spaceflight, and making sure humans can explore the universe as safely as possible.