Helmut
G. Hinghofer-Szalkay
Professional
background
Helmut
Hinghofer-Szalkay researches and teaches physiology since 1970. He
became a tenured professor at the University of Graz in 1981. During
his career he was an Ames Research Fellow; the Director of Adaptional and Spaceflight Physiology; and chairman of the Department of Physiology, Medical University in Graz, Austria, from which he retired 2013.
Editorial board member
Review activities
for scientific journals
Activities
/ honors / experience
- Chairman, Institute of Physiology,
Medical University Graz, 2000-2013
- President, Styrian Physicians' Scientific Society 2008-2010; deputy, 2010-2012
- Founder & head,
Institute for Adaptive and Spaceflight Physiology (IAP), Graz
- Member, IAA Study Group
on 'Medical Safety Guidelines for Passengers on Commercial Orbital Space Flights'
(2006-present)
- Member, Board of Trustees,
International Academy of Astronautics
- Vice Co-chair, Scientific
Program Committee, 16th IAA Humans in Space Symposium, Beijing / China, May
20-24, 2007
- Co-chair and member of the
Organizing Committee, 6th International
Water Immersion Symposium, Nagakute, Japan, September 2005
- Conference Chair, 15th IAA Humans in Space Symposium,
Graz 2005
- Member, International
Program Committee, IASTED
International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Innsbruck 2004
- Member, International Scientific
Advisory Board, 7th ISAM
International Congress, San Diego, USA 2003
- Member, International Organizing
Committee, 5th International
Head-Out Water Immersion Symposium, Houston, Texas 2002
- Member, International Advisory
Board, 4th Int'l Congress of Pathophysiology,
Budapest 2002
- Chair, Franz Lanyar Foundation 2002-2010
- Member, Scientific & Organizing Program
Committee, 13th IAA Humans in Space Symposium, Greece 2000
- Member, Int'l Scientific
Advisoty Board, 6th World Congress, International Society for Adaptive Medicine
(ISAM), Lyon 2000
- Organizer and president,
4th International Head-Out Water Immersion Symposium,
Graz 1999
- Member, ISGP Council of Trustees (International Society
for Gravitational Society), 1998-present
- Secretary 1997-2004 (vice
president, 1991-96), Austrian Society for Aerospace Medicine, Vienna
- PI of an RLF-spaceflight experiment
("Interstitium" - using the current long term flight world record: 14 months)
flown onboard MIR space
station in 1994-1995
- Scientific director, Styrian
Dietetics Academy, Graz 1993-2000
- Organizer of the International
"Space Life Sciences in Austria" Symposium, Vienna 1992
- PI of the Austromir-experiment
"Bodyfluids" - flown
1991
- Doctor's office (nutritional
physiology), Graz 1987-1990
- Local organiser of the
esa-sponsored 3rd European Symposium
on Life Sciences Research in Space, Graz 1987
- Editor: "Gravity response
in man", XXVIth COSPAR plenary meeting,
Tolouse 1986
- Correspondent in Gravitational
Physiology, IUPS, 1985-present
- Member, Advisory Group
"Concept for Austrian Participation on Space Investigation", Ministry for
Sciences & Research, Vienna 1982
- Secretary, Austrian Physiological Society
1979-1983, and 1997-2011
- Secretary, Styrian Scientific Society of Physicians,
Graz 1976-2003
Areas of research (> list
of publications)
- Smooth muscle physiology
(70's)
- Circulatory and lymph dynamics
(80's)
- Medical test item analysis
(80's)
- Blood volume regulation,
blood physicochemistry (90's)
- Body composition analysis
- Space medicine & physiology
Methods
- Isolated organ activity
monitoring
- Eye movement monitoring
- EEG, EOG, EKG, ENG
- Computer-aided nutritional
profile determination
- Blood pressure monitoring
- High-precision mass densitometry
- Whole-body and regional
electrical impedance monitoring
- Non-invasive biosignal
detection
Firsts
List of publications