Bremen Human Space Exploration Seminar

Guest: Dr. Lucie Poulet

Exploring Mars will require robust and reliable life-support systems to provide food, water, and oxygen to the crew, as well as waste disposal. Although the norm on the International Space Station is to use physico-chemical processes, food production can only be achieved with biological organisms and their inclusion within bioregenerative life-support systems or hybrid life-support systems. This presentation will give an overview of the state of the art of life-support systems and dive into the Micro-Ecological Life Support System Alternative (MELiSSA) project led by the European Space Agency, as an example of large-scale bioregenerative life-support system.

Lucie Poulet is a researcher in bioastronautics and life support processes at Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA) Institut Pascal (France). Her research focuses on developing models to understand and optimize plant growth in space. For 15 years, her research has had applications in the field of bioregenerative life support systems for space missions, and she has collaborated closely with various space agencies (NASA, ESA, CSA, CNES, DLR) and laboratories. Since June 2025, she is the scientific director of the MELiSSA Foundation. Lucie holds a PhD from UCA (2018), a Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering from Purdue University (USA) and a Master's degree in general engineering from the École des Mines de Nancy (France). 

Bremen Human Space Exploration Seminar

The seminar will take place every second Thursday at 2 pm CET/CEST at the Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM) from 2025 during the lecture period. 

The invitation for the seminar will be send via email to all registered members of the space-exploration mailing list. You can register for the invitation here.