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Ana Diaz-Artiles is a researcher at the forefront of human spaceflight technology, with expertise spanning spacesuit design, extravehicular activity (EVA) performance, decompression sickness risk, and wearable robotics. Her work addresses one of the most persistent challenges in space exploration: making spacesuits safer, more mobile, and less metabolically demanding for astronauts operating on planetary surfaces. Diaz-Artiles is perhaps best known for her contributions to the SmartSuit project, a hybrid planetary spacesuit concept that seeks to balance the competing demands of reduced gas pressure — which improves mobility — against the elevated risk of decompression sickness this creates. Her research, which has garnered over a dozen citations, employs biomechanical modeling frameworks such as OpenSim to quantify how robotic actuators can reduce the metabolic cost of lunar ambulation. Beyond suit mechanics, her work extends to adaptive lunar navigation using deep learning and holographic telepresence, addressing the unique visual challenges of the lunar South Pole. More recently, she has explored closed-loop physiological feedback systems for managing orthostatic intolerance in astronauts and pilots. Diaz-Artiles represents a new generation of researchers bridging human physiology, robotics, and space systems engineering.