BOARD

Eugenio Sorrentino

Eugenio has a deep knowledge of the space sector both in Italy and abroad.He has been the project manager of the Megsat Space Division, an Italian company that
specialized in the development and launch of privat satellites. He is currently deputy President of the Italian Association of Scientific Journalists.

Antonio Del Mastro

Electronic and Telecommunication Engineer with a long experience in the design, risk analysis techniques and certification of devices and systems in Space and not-Space industry. He is currently president of Mars Planet founded in 2004, as Italian chapter of the International Mars Society, and Technical Director of Mars Planet Technologies, a Space company focused on the terrestrial application of space research. His main areas of research interest are related to space medicine, robotics, virtual reality, and space economy.

Marcello Coradini

Professor of Space Systems at the University of Genoa and Trento; he works at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena as a representative of ESA, carrying out advanced research on Martian hydrology. With the European Space Agency he has contributed to several missions including SOHO, Cluster, Huygens / Cassini, Mars Express, Venus Express, Rosetta.

Robert Zubrin

Robert is an American aerospace engineer, author and advocate for human exploration of Mars.Founder of the Mars Society organization and author of the Mars Direct Plan which outlines a cost-effective and efficient approach for manned missions to Mars using current technology

Enrico Flamini

Currently professor at University Chieti-Pescara “G. D’Annunzio”, Geology and Engineering Department , tenure of the course “Solar System exploration”. Until 2018 Enrico has been Scientific Director of Italian Space Agency, program manager for the Italian partecipation to the ESA Mars Express mission and to NASA MRO, principal investigator of the SIMBIO-SYS experiment on the BepiColombo ESA mission and ESA research Fellow at University of Sussex.

Pietro Veragouth

Graduated in economics, he specialized in disruptive technologies. Since 2015, he has been leading the Swiss Institute for Disruption Innovation, a center of excellence in research and innovation. He has over 15 patents to his name, including holographic projection technologies and synthetic meat, which have given rise to several successful ventures.