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Didier SCHMITT
Dr. Didier Schmitt, holds
Master's and undergraduate degrees in science and in medicine. He received his Ph.D. in Immunology and Pharmacology in 1990 from the University of Strasbourg and his M.D. in 1992 from the University of Toulouse. Dr Schmitt holds also several University diplomas in emergency medical care and aerospace medicine and he was graduated from the International Space University (summer session'89). In 1994 he received the highest University Diploma as research director ("Habilitation') from the University of Strasbourg. Dr. Schmitt received the first prize in the European competition for the best idea to use microgravity as a tool for application-oriented research (Low G Award'95). Didier Schmitt has served as the Principal Investigator for many Space Life Science experiments. Included are eight parabolic flights (1990-1992), Space Shuttle/Spacelab (IML-2, 1994) and Spacehab (Shuttle-Mir Missions - 03, 05, and 06, 1996-1997), sounding rocket (Sweden, 1995), flights aboard the Mir space station (1992, 1993, 1994), long duration bed rest (1992 in Toulouse and Houston, 1994 in Toulouse), long duration confinement (ESA/EXEMSI 1992 in Cologne, ESA/HUBES 1994 in Moscow), Antarctic wintering (1993-1995) and Biosatellite flights (rhesus monkeys, 1993). He was the Project Scientist for the Biorack experiments on the IML-2 Spacelab mission (1994), assisted in crew training and worked at the Payload Operations and Control Center in Huntsville, Alabama during that mission. Dr. Schmitt was selected as a semi-finalist astronaut candidate for the Spacelab-Neurolab mission in 1997. Dr. Schmitt has published over 40 articles in peer reviewed international journals. From 1992 to 1996, Dr. Schmitt served as Assistant Professor at the University of Toulouse. In 1996/1997, he was an Associate Professor at the International Space University in Strasbourg.
Currently, Dr. Schmitt is head of the Life Sciences Unit at ESA, in charge of scientific co-ordination, programme planning and strategy. He is also the ESA representative at the International Space Life Science Working Group in charge of international co-operation with ISS partners for life sciences.
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