is a scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia where she works on space radiation risk modeling, countermeasure approaches and technologies supporting human space exploration missions. She previously served as the Deputy Element Scientist for the NASA Space Radiation Element at the Johnson Space Center and was responsible for scientific management and strategic planning, ensuring that the Element’s research portfolio was organized to understand and mitigate radiation health risks for the astronaut corp. She was a visiting scientist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory and is an experienced user of the NASA Space Radiation Research Laboratory where her research work centered on evaluation of the effects of charged particle radiation on cancer processes using advanced human three-dimenstional cell culture models. She joined NASA in 2004 as the lead scientist for the Advanced Technology Development Laboratory in the Cell Science Program.

Dr. Huff has held the positions of research assistant professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she studied integrin-mediated cancer cell migration and metastasis, and was also a research scientist at Bioforce Nanosciences, Inc., a bio-nanotechnology company specializing in development of ultraminiaturized biodiagnostic tools and technologies. She received a BS in Microbiology and a BA in Psychology from the University of Rochester, and earned a PhD in Microbiology from the University of Virginia studying molecular biology, oncogenes and signal transduction in the laboratory of J. Thomas Parsons.

Dr. Huff was elected to the NCRP in 2017, was a member of Scientific Committee (SC) 1-24P2: Radiation Exposures in Space and the Potential of Central Nervous System Effects, and currently serves on SC 1-27: Evaluation of Sex-Specific Differences in Lung Cancer Radiation Risks and Recommendations for Use in Transfer and Projection Models. She was a member of the Organizing Committee for the 2019 and 2020 NCRP Annual Meetings.