jason hatton

Jason Hatton received the Ph.D. degree in Biology from the Universite Louis Pasteur Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France. He is the Head of the Biology and Environmental Monitoring Unit in the Directorate of Human Spaceflight, European Space Agency, Paris, France. Since 2005, he has been responsible for the overall definition and coordination of biology and astrobiology science within the ESA ELIPS program, which are implemented on a variety of ground and flight research platforms, including the International Space Station. Furthermore, he is responsible for the overall coordination of the ESA ISS Experiments relevant to climate change, which includes the GEROS experiment. He also coordinated the joint ESA-NASA airborne observation campaign for the first ESA Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-1) re-entry in 2008. Prior to joining ESA he worked as a Researcher at the VA Medical Center/UCSF, San Francisco, CA, USA, from 2001 to 2005. He has performed research on immune cell early signal transduction under microgravity conditions, including a series of experiments using the ESA Biorack facility on Shuttle during the 1990s.