Prior to joining The Exploration Company, Dana was the co-founder & COO of MUNCH:ON, a food technology platform based out of the Middle East, that was acquired by Careem (Uber’s subsidiary in the region). Before starting MUNCH:ON, Dana was a Partner of Business Development at AlJal Capital—a financing and venture capital firm in the United Arab Emirates. Previous to that, Ms. Baki worked for Procter & Gamble in the United States for 7+ years, benefiting from a wide range of assignments within the company and gaining expertise in Corporate Strategy, Marketing and Consumer Insights.

She holds an MBA from Georgetown University and B.A. in Economics and English Literature from The University of Michigan.

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Before leaving a tenure-track position in Ireland to pursue cutting-edge research in the US, he was a Faculty Member in Neuroscience Department of University College Cork, and received the prestigious Neuroscience Ireland Investigator Award in 2016. During his academic career, Dr. Hegarty was awarded several highly-competitive scholarships and fellowships to support independent research, including from the Irish Research Council, National University of Ireland and William Randolph Hearst Foundation. A Royal Irish Academy grant supported post-doctoral training in the Erasmus MC, Netherlands and KU Leuven, Belgium. A highly productive researcher with 30+ research papers (22 as first/senior author), >1,400 citations, several patents, h-index = 18, and a serial grant awardee. Dr. Hegarty has acted as an Editor for Frontiers and The Biochemist, and expert reviewer for a number of esteemed journals and international funding agencies. An experienced entrepreneur, innovator, researcher, team builder and teacher, who graduated top of his Neuroscience BSc class.

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He currently serves as the Medical Director and Chief Flight Surgeon for Vast Space. In this role he is part of a team building the first commercial space station and developing artificial gravity systems for long term human habitation of space. Before this he worked for NASA as a Clinical Scientist for the Human Research Program developing methods to assess medical risk for deep space missions and designing the medical systems to mitigate them. He was the clinical lead for NASA’s artificial intelligence clinical decision support task force.

As a terrestrial physician Dana maintains an active clinical practice in Emergency Medicine and holds faculty appointments with UC Irvine, the Massachusetts General Hospital, and Baylor College of Medicine. He has cared for patients in every clinical setting from single physician coverage rural hospitals in Wyoming to tertiary care medical centers in some of the largest US cities. He has been the field physician for high altitude expeditions, underwater archeological expeditions, research stations in Antarctica, and every environment in between.

He is also an accomplished researcher and scientist with work focused on enhancing the ability to deliver high level care in resource limited environments and developing artificial gravity systems.

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