NASA
Ames
Research
Center
MS
262-4
Moffett
Field,
CA
94035
llouko@mail.arc.nasa.gov
Loukia
D.
Loukopoulos
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has been a Senior Research Associate with SJSUF since 2003. She is involved in aviation human factors research at NASA Ames Research Center. Her most recent work has been focusing on cognitive issues in the routine aviation operational environment and has aimed to observe, describe, and analyze the multiple concurrent task demands made on pilots during routine, normal flights. This line of work has included real-time observations from the cockpit jumpseat during passenger-carrying flights and participation in air carrier training.
Loukia has produced numerous publications and made many presentations on this research to academic, scientific, and industry audiences, and has interacted with air carriers on issues relating to operational procedures. She has also collaborated on a review of US air carrier accidents of the last decade with an emphasis on looking beyond the oft-cited “pilot error” as a cause of an accident and towards better understanding the many factors that conspire to make any expert pilot, not just the particular accident pilot, vulnerable to errors. This work is described in a book that she co-authored and that was published in 2007.
Prior to joining SJSUF, Loukia was an Aerospace Experimental Psychologist with the US Navy and served six years of active duty before separating with the rank of Lieutenant Commander. She holds a BA in Psychology (1991) from Clark University and MS (1994) and PhD (1997) degrees from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
