Alisa Braun

Affiliation– NASA Ames Research Center

Division– Human Systems Integration Division (TH)

Email– alisa.m.braun@nasa.gov

Professional Bio

Dr. Braun is a Research AST in the Human-Autonomy Teaming (HAT) lab at NASA Ames Research Center studying multi-vehicle (m:N) operations in uncrewed aircraft systems. She also worked with the Fatigue Countermeasures lab studying astronaut sleep and nutrition on the ISS. She earned her Ph.D. in Vision Science from UC Berkeley studying the effects of fixational eye movements on visual perception.

Education

• 2025, Ph.D., Vision Science, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
• 2018, B.S., Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Denver, Denver, CO

Professional Experience

• 2018-2020, Fellow, Princeton in Asia

Research Interests

• Human Factors
• Vision Science

Awards/Honors

• Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, 2022
• Young Investigator Award, Optical Society of America, 2021

Publications

• Flynn-Evans, E. E., Braun, A. M., & Jansen, R. A. (2025). Sleep away from earth. Sleep medicine clinics, 20(1), 73-80.
• Braun, A., & Sweeny, T. D. (2019). Anisotropic visual awareness of shapes. Vision research, 156, 17-27.

Conference Proceedings

• Jansen, R. A., Braun, A., Glaros, Z. L., Zwart, S. R., Smith, S. M., & Flynn-Evans, E. E. (2024). Caffeine consumption aboard the International Space Station. SLEEP 38th Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, Houston, TX. 
• Braun, A., Groth, I., Otero-Millan, J., Tuten, W. S. (2023). Motion blur near the resolution limit of the parafoveal retina. Vision Science Society, St. Pete Beach.
• Braun, A., Otero-Millan, J., Roorda, A., Tuten, W. S. (2021). The benefits of naturally moving over stabilized stimuli for acuity increase with longer presentation times. Optical Society of America’s Fall Vision Meeting, Virtual.
• Braun, A., & Sweeny, T. D. (2019). Anisotropic visual awareness of shapes. Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL.