Dr Emma Tucker
Areas of expertise
- Medical And Health Sciences Not Elsewhere Classified 119999
- Galactic Astronomy 020104
Research interests
Space Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Digital Twins, Computational simulations of physiology
Biography
Dr Emma Tucker is an astrophysicist and medical doctor whose unique background allows her to study the effects of space travel on the human body. After completing a PhD in astrophysics and then a medical degree, she undertook an aerospace medicine clerkship at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston Texas. Dr Tucker is currently an emergency medicine registrar (Australasian College for Emergency Medicine) at the Calvary Emergency Department in Canberra as well as a research fellow in space medicine at the ANU where she does research on the effects of microgravity on the cardiovascular system. Dr Tucker is an ANU InSpace Mission Specialist in space medicine.
Available student projects
- Space Medicine: Computational Simulations of the cerebrovascular system
- Space Medicine: Long duration spaceflight and the cardiovascular system
- Space Medicine: Fitness to fly – congestive heart failure
- Visiting the Solar System – Cardiovascular effects on Solar System Planets
Current student projects
Erica Coxon (undergraduate research project 2021): "Circulation in Microgravity"
Publications
- Lopez-Sanchez, A, Koribalski, B, van Eymeren, J et al. 2012, 'The intriguing H i gas in NGC 5253: an infall of a diffuse, low-metallicity H i cloud?', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 419, no. 2, pp. 1051-1069.
- Kirby, E, Koribalski, B, Jerjen, H et al 2012, 'The Local Volume Hi Survey: Galaxy kinematics', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 420, no. 4, pp. 2924-2943.
- Jones, D, Read, M, Saunders, W et al. 2009, 'The 6dF Galaxy Survey: final redshift release (DR3) and southern large-scale structures', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 399, no. 2, pp. 683-698.
- Kirby, E, Jerjen, H, Ryder, S et al 2008, 'Deepest Near-IR Surface Photometry of Galaxies in the Local Sphere of Influence', Galaxies in the Local Universe, ed. B S Koribalski, H Jerjen, Springer Science + Business Media, Berlin, pp. 49-52.
- Jones, H, Read, M, Saunders, W et al. 2009, 'The 6dF Galaxy Survey: final redshift release (DR3) and southern large-scale structures', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 399, no. 2, pp. 683-698.
- Tucker, E, Jerjen, H, Ryder, S et al 2008, 'Deep Near-Infrared Surface Photometry of 57 Galaxies in the Local Sphere of Influence', Astronomical Journal, vol. 136, no. Nov, pp. 1866-1888.
