Mona Nasser

Mona Nasser DDS, MSc(DPH), MSc(Astro), PhD, FHEA, is the Director of the Plymouth Institute of Health and Care Research (PIHR) and a Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Oral Health Research at the University of Plymouth. She is a methodologist, health services researcher, and interdisciplinary scientist. She has received recognition for her work on building new frameworks to inform research prioritization processes. She has been working with members of the Space Medicine Team at the European Astronaut Centre on the Systematic Threat Analysis of Radiation from Space (STARS) project. She leads a research group on the Impact of Space Environment on Craniofacial and Dental Structure (ISECS) at the university, which involves both systematic reviews of space medicine and primary studies. She is also an artist leading an art-science project called MetaFuturism Lab, running speculative futuristic immersive workshops to engage individuals from different disciplines and cultural contexts to reimagine scientific and social concepts in the future.