Bioastronautics (the formal name for Space Medicine) encompasses a range of medical, pyschosocial, and engineering disciplines to safely place human beings outside of Earth’s atmosphere and preserve their health. Thanks to a variety of mentors at NASA and Duke University, I have been able to develop an introductory course for the field. Duke and Coursera officially published the class in late 2021.
Dominic is working at Tietronix after graduating from Duke University where he double majored in neuroscience and mathematics. After interning in the Spacecraft Software Engineering Branch of NASA’s Johnson Space Center, he came back to Duke. With Baylor College of Medicine’s Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH), he produced a course on Space Medicine. After the initial success of the course, he and his co-instructor produced a Duke Coursera Course with Duke Learning Innovation.
While at Duke, he worked in the Wang Neurobiology Lab (now at MIT’s McGovern Institute) working to apply novel to detect and sort neural activity in mouse exploratory behavior. He volunteered as an EMT with Duke University EMS, served as a camp counselor with Camp Kesem at Duke University, and was a Co-Founder and President of DukeSEDS.
He is now the Chapter Expansion Manager of SEDS USA, firmly committed to expanding access to and diversity within the aerospace industry and encouraging more students to consider the field of bioastronautics.
Download ResumeBSc in Neuroscience, 2021
Duke University
BSc in Mathematics, 2021
Duke University
Research Projects and Technical Work
Investigated error rate in medical software used to fuse CT and MRI scans
Attended UCSF Neurosurgery Grand Rounds
Shadowed surgeries for the implantation of Deep Brain Stimulation devices
Published in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
Papers, Writings, and Presentations