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Marie-Luise Heuser studied philosophy, history, physics and mathematics at Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf. She received her doctorate with a dissertation on F. W. J. Schelling's philosophy of nature and the physical theories of self-organization. She has been involved in research and teaching at various universities in Germany. From 2002 to 2015, she was a scientist at the Institute of Philosophy at the Technical University of Braunschweig, where she initiated and organized the transdisciplinary cooperation "Culture and Space Travel"(with weekly lecture series at the "House of Science", art exhibitions at the University of Fine Arts, and scientific conferences). Since 2015, she has been chair of the Department of Culture and Spaceflight at the Institute of Space Systems at the Technical University of Braunschweig (IRAS).Since 2020 she is chair of the Expert Committee for Spaceflight and Culture at the German Aerospace Society (DGLR), and since 2022 head of the Space Philosophy Laboratory at Space Renaissance International (SRI). She is also a scientific member of the University of Düsseldorf. Her main focus is on the classical philosophy of space travel from antiquity to modern times, a field of research and teaching she founded. The term Transterrestrialism®, which she coined and registered as a word mark, is the name of a new discipline in the cultural sciences and humanities that deals with the philosophical prerequisites and cultural history of space travel, as well as with fundamental paradigm shifts in the image of humanity, in modes of perception and categories of thought, and with the future possibilities of new forms of livingand interaction in space. An excerpt list of her publications can be found at https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Luise_Heuser