Ronke Olabisi is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. She received her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She has been teaching about the effects of spaceflight on the human body for about a decade, and the research in her lab involves tissue engineering and regenerative medicine for tissues damaged by injury, disease, aging, or spaceflight. She is a member of 100 Year Starship, an initiative that aims to make the capability of human interstellar travel a reality within the next 100 years.