Dr. Ana Diaz Artiles is an engineering professor at Texas A&M University researching ways to further human space flight by designing a novel space suit. Her lab’s recent work to develop the SmartSuit concept combines soft-robotics, biometric monitoring, and advances in material sciences to bring Extravehicular Activity suits into the 21st century.  We talk artificial gravity, problem-solving as an engineer, and working with the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA in this exciting episode. Discuss this Episode on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/sphericalcows/  Check out the Podcast Page: https://sphericalcows.podcastpage.io/   Check out our Discord: https://discord.gg/bfPEqn4GFx   — Links — Health and Human Performance Lab: https://bhp.engr.tamu.edu/people/ana-diaz-artiles-ph-d/  NASA SmartSuit: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2019_Phase_I_Phase_II/SmartSuit/  Dr. Diaz Artiles’ Twitter: https://twitter.com/adartiles  Health and Human Performance Lab Twitter: https://twitter.com/TAMU_BHP  Mouse Study Using Artificial Gravity: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41526-019-0077-0  Animal Studies for Artificial or Microgravity: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspas.2016.00021/full