Empowering all Women, in Space and on Earth

Board Members

Paola Belingheri

Director of Research Paola Belingheri grew up in an international environment. She holds a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Bologna, where she also received a scholarship through the university’s Honours Programme. Previously, she worked in various roles, including supporting technology transfer from space at the European Space Incubator in Noordwijk, participating […]

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Diana Pueyo

Grants and Awards Committee Diana Pueyo is the Director for Regional Development since 2013. In this role, she supports the creation and operations of local groups all over Europe. She launched the local group of Munich and lead the group until 2013. She created and is now the Head of the Procurement Department at Thales

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Marc Heppener

Marc Heppener studied physical chemistry at the University of Amsterdam and obtained his PhD in 1986 on time-resolved molecular dissociation processes. In 1986 he joined the Space Research Organisation of the Netherlands (SRON) as project leader X-ray detector development. In 1989 he joined the SRON management, taking up the position of programme manager external research.

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Luisella Giulicchi

President of Women in Aerospace Europe (WIA-Europe) Luisella Giulicchi is System Manager at the European Space Agency (ESA), Netherlands, for the Copernicus Sentinel-6 mission: measuring sea level change. Project of the European Commission in cooperation with ESA, EUMETSAT, NASA, French Space Agency CNES, and NOAA. Copernicus is the largest operational Earth observation programme from Space

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