Session 5

9:15 to 10:15 AM
Consciousness 1

Deep Space: Transcendent and Technoetic Countermeasures

Presenter: Annahita Nezami

In this interactive session, Dr Annahita Nezami will present the challenges of deep space and habitation missions, followed by a discussion involving the the role technoetic and transcendent countermeasures can play on such missions. This session will involve watching a 10 minute multisensory video, please bring your headphones.

Dr Annahita Nezami, CEO and co-founder of VROE, oversees the design, research and clinical aspects of VROE. Annahita is an international speaker, researcher, and chartered psychologist providing consultation, training and therapy. Her areas of interest include space health and the Overview Effect, wellbeing, neuroscience, trauma, depression, performance, and altered states of consciousness. Annahita serves as an advisor to multiple organisations and was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). She has been a guest lecturer at various establishments such as Deakin University, Central St Martin’s, and University College London (UCL), invited to talk about mental health and the Overview Effect on BBC Radio 4 and TEDx, and published papers and articles with Springer and other media outlets.