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Marianne Merchez (born 25 October 1960 in Uccle) is a Belgian doctor from the Catholic University of Louvain and a former European Space Agency astronaut.She is certified in aerospace medicine and in industrial medicine and she is also a professional pilot (holds a Belgian Air Transport Pilot License from Civil Aviation School former co-pilot Boeing 737).She has extensive experience as a consultant in human factors.