Joshua Coffie

Joshua is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and holds a Master’s degree from CU Boulder's ATLAS Institute. He is currently a doctoral student in bioastronautics at the ATLAS Institute, where his research investigates human-systems integration, closed-loop medical autonomy, and advanced material sensors for Isolated, Confined, and Extreme (ICE) environments.

His doctoral work focuses on the intersection of human factors, cognitive architecture, and wearable biosensing systems, examining how conductive nanocomposite telemetry and cognitive scaffolding can be integrated to support autonomous medical decision-making during deep-space exploration missions.

Publications & Patents

U.S. Patent Application No. 19/747,060. "Implantable, Conductive Tattoo Ink for Human Computer Interaction"

Joshua Coffie, Alexandra Felderman, Caitlin Rogers, and Meena Skandarajan. 2025. "Ink-carnation: Engineering the Human Canvas". “Matter over Mind” Art Exhibition, Dairy Arts Center, Boulder, CO.

Joshua Coffie, Caitlin Rogers, Emma Thomure, and Carson Bruns. 2024. "Synthesis and Characterization of Implantable Ultraviolet Photoprotectants Through Nanoencapsulation of Bemotrizinol in Poly(methyl)methacrylate". ACS Fall 2024 SciMeetings.

Fiona Bell, Joshua Coffie, and Mirela Alistar. 2024. "Bio-Digital Calendar: Attuning to Nonhuman Temporalities for Multispecies Understanding". In: Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '24). (Cork, Ireland, February 11, 2024).

Fiona Bell, Michelle Ramsahoye, Joshua Coffie, Julia Tung, and Mirela Alistar. 2023. “µMe: Exploring the Human Microbiome as an Intimate Material for Living Interfaces”. In: Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’23), (Pittsburgh, PA, July 10–14, 2023).