Jessica Meir
Also known as Jessica Ulrika Meir
Swedish-American marine biologist and astronaut
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- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,960x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,515x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,328x
- Improved Survival with Ipilimumab in Patients with Metastatic Melanoma
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Jessica Ulrika Meir (born July 1, 1977) is a Swedish and American marine biologist, physiologist, and NASA astronaut. She was previously an assistant professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, following postdoctoral research in comparative physiology at the University of British Columbia. She has studied the diving physiology and behavior of emperor penguins in Antarctica, and the physiology of bar-headed geese, which are able to migrate over the Himalayas. In September 2002, Meir served as an aquanaut on the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations 4 (NEEMO 4) crew. In 2013, she was selected by NASA to Astronaut Group 21. In 2016, Meir participated in ESA CAVES, a training course in which international astronauts train in a space-analogue cave environment. Meir launched on September 25, 2019, to the ISS onboard Soyuz MS-15, where she served as a flight engineer during Expedition 61 and 62. On October 18, 2019, Meir and Christina Koch were the first women to participate in an all-female spacewalk.
Meir was included in Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2020.
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1977 births20th-century American Jews21st-century American explorers21st-century American JewsAmerican astronautsAmerican aviatorsAmerican explorers of AntarcticaAmerican marine biologistsAmerican people of Iraqi-Jewish descentAmerican people of Israeli descentAmerican people of Swedish descentAmerican underwater divers