Nisha CharkoudianNisha Charkoudian received her Ph.D. degree in Physiology in 1999 from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. She completed two post-doctoral fellowships, the first (1999-2000) at the University of Angers in Angers, France, andthe second (2000-2003) at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. She joined the faculty of the Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering at Mayo as Assistant Professor in 2003 and was promoted to Associate Professor of Physiology in 2008. She moved to the Boston area in 2011, where she joined the scientific staff of the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine. She serves as Associate Editor of the American Journal of Physiology: Heart and Circulatory Physiology and Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise and is a member of the editorial boards of several other physiology journals, including the Journal of Applied Physiology. Her research is focused on the regulation of body temperature and blood pressure in humans. The main goals of her work are to increase understanding of how the sympathetic nervous system responds to changes in environment, blood volume, hormone status, and other challenges as it works to balance the competing demands of maintaining blood pressure, blood flow, and body temperature across the lifespan. Read More Read Less