Christiane Heinicke is a German physicist and engineer. Her main interests are things that can flow, like water, air or molten metal, but she has also studied auroras and done simulations of the Earth's mantle. At HI-SEAS she is working on extracting water from the ground, studying the crew's sleep patterns and doing experiments related to the toxicity of Martian soil.
My Year on "Mars"
Physicist Christiane Heinicke spent 365 days sequestered with five others in a geodesic dome on the side of a Hawaiian volcano to test what isolation might do to the psyches of the crew on a Mars mission
What It's Like to Live on Mars
Report from a simulated Martian research station
To Mars via Hawaii
Scientists begin yearlong Red Planet simulation at Mauna Loa