Director Ad Interim Mary L. Snitch joined Lockheed Martin Corporation in Washington, DC in 1990, and now leads corporate-wide engagements with US and international professional and scientific organizations, along with research universities and national academies. Throughout Maryās career she has been an advocate for STEM education, particularly for females and underrepresented communities in science and […]
Head of Research Dr. Marcelle A. LalibertĆ©Ā is Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer at HEC Paris and an academic researcher specializing in AI governance, STEM equity, and the space sector. Recognized by the United Nations as an expert on gender and AI ethics, she served on the UN Secretary-Generalās High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence,
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We would like to announce that Paola Belingheri will be stepping down from her role as a Women In Aerospace-Europe Board Member, where she served as Director of Research. We are deeply grateful for her contributions and wish her all the best in her next chapter. Ā Paola Belingheri has been an active member of
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Board Member Pieter van Beekhuizen has worked his whole professional life in the space domain, first with ESRO and later with ESA, and has occupied during this period a large variety of different staff functions and management responsibilities within ESA. His last assignment was Head of ESA Industrial Cost Auditing and Return Division which has
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Board Member Joerg specialises in technology commercialisation ā with a strong focus on space ā and has been involved in numerous primarily international activities in both space and early-stage equity finance since 1987 (i.e., support to the creation and early years of RapidEye). After pursuing a first career in space business he became a venture
Board Member Mariella Graziano is an Aerospace Engineer from the Sapienza University of Rome (Sapienza- UniversitĆ di Roma). She joined GMV in 1999 and since 2022 she has held the position of Executive Director of Strategy and Business Development for Science, Exploration and Transportation – GMV Space Systems. She started his career working at TER
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TreasurerĀ Anna Gregorio has a Laurea (from the University ofĀ Trieste) & Ph.D. (Scuola Normale Pisa) in Physics, and a Master in Space Systems Engineering (TU Delft). Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Trieste, coordinating the instrument teams of large scientific space missions (Planck, Euclid) of the European Space Agency. Her h-index is 54,
