About
Xenos
Xenos is a consulting firm providing psychological support in extreme environments, human spaceflight, and human performance. We tailor psychological expertise in topics including screening and selection, preparation and training, post-mission rehabilitation, space habitats, space tourism, and environmental psychology. We work with both individuals and organisations through consulting and coaching. Our vision is to support a rapidly growing commercial space industry and sustainability on Earth.
Director - Konstantin Chterev
Konstantin is the director of Xenos Consulting, specialising in the psychology of extreme environments and offering services in the field.
He is a Psychologist & Research Director at SAGA Space Architects. In 2020, he directed research for a two-month Arctic mission which tested a prototype lunar habitat called “LUNARK”. The project later won an Index Award in 2021. He is leading research for their Circadian Light experiment currently on board the International Space Station.
Konstantin is a Human Spaceflight Consultant at Blue Abyss, providing insights and psychological recommendations for human spaceflight. He also works on research with organisations including NASA, the University of Minnesota, the University of Surrey, and the Austrian Space Forum. He also provides support to student organisations including Mission Asclepios, designing crew selection processes for isolation missions, as well as conducting psychological interviews with final candidates.
Konstantin has worked as staff for the International Space University, providing psychological support for both staff and participants, leading coaching programs, and assisting program creation. He has worked for the Austrian Space Forum, supporting their extreme environment missions through expertise in group dynamics, selection and screening, and organisational performance. He served as Team Lead at the 2016 ASE Planetary Congress in Vienna, personally assisting astronauts Georgi Ivanov, Helen Sharman, and Chiaki Mukai.
He holds a BSc and MSc in Psychology from the University of Surrey, winning a Chancellor’s Scholarship. His theses looked at group dynamics in extreme environments and organisational leadership in the NewSpace industry respectively. He is currently a PhD student at the university, researching environmental psychology in space habitats and the commercial space industry. He is an alum of the International Space University and provided psychological expertise in a team project sponsored by NASA & ESA. He won an ESA-BIC and ISU Start Up Award in collaboration with D-MARS for educational isolation missions.