Yvette Gonzalez, MPH is a Visiting Researcher at the University of Plymouth (UoP) Faculty of Health and a Spaceflight and Bioastronautics Researcher. She is an External Collaborator with the Space Omics and Medical Atlas team and contributes to the NSF-funded “Supporting and Empowering Polar Early Career Scientists through the Polar Science Early Career Community Office (PSECCO)” led by the University of Colorado at Boulder. 

In 2023 she served as Research Lead for the first-ever space research caving analog in Portugal, CAMões, supporting a suite of human health experiments for the UoP Dental School, Centre for Eyecare Excellence, and Brain Research & Imaging Centre.  In addition to annual parabolic flight campaign research, her space medical investigations include contributions to neuroscience and ophthalmologic team experiments on the Axiom-2, Polaris Dawn, and Galactic (GAL) 05 spaceflight missions. Her international neuroscience team recently published their book with Elsevier, Neuroscience Research in Short-Duration Human Spaceflight. Yvette is pioneering research in applied space medical solutions for humanity and progresses this research within the context of international emergency public health, astronaut health, space ecology, and astronautics training.