Sandra Haeuplik-Meusburger

TU Wien • Academic Director

Sandra Häuplik-Meusburger is a researcher and architect specializing in socio-spatial sustainable and compact design solutions for both terrestrial and extra-terrestrial environments. Based at TU Wien, she instructs and leads Space Architecture design studios at universities across Europe, the US, UAE, and China. She is the Academic Director for the Executive MBA in Space Architecture at TU Wien and the Science Academy's Space course in Lower Austria.

Sandra has published numerous scientific papers and has contributed to aerospace design and research projects as a principal investigator, collaborator, manager, and initiator. Her research expertise lies in Habitability Design in Extreme Environments. She conducts cross-program comparisons and analyses of inhabited isolated, confined, and extreme environments (ICEs) on Earth and in space from a human perspective, providing a systematic assessment of existing and future living and working environments in space.

Sandra is an Academician of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), where she chairs the Permanent History Committee. She is also the former chair of the Space Architecture Technical Committee at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

She is the author of several influential books, including Architecture for Astronauts - An Activity Based Approach (Springer, 2011), Space Architecture Education for Engineers and Architects - Designing and Planning Beyond Earth (Springer, 2016), and Space Habitats and Habitability – Designing for Isolated and Confined Environments on Earth and in Space (Springer, 2021).

Events

International Astronautical Congress 2024

14-18 October 2024

Milan, Italy

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The Global Space Exploration Conference 2021

14-18 June 2021

St. Petersburg, Russia

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