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The Foresight Fellowship is a one-year program committed to giving change-makers the support to accelerate their bold ideas into the future. The mission is to catalyze collaboration among leading young scientists, engineers, and innovators who work to advance technologies for the benefit of life.

Check out my talk "Lunar Exploration: Challenges for a Long-Term Sustainable Base" for the Foresight Institute seminar series.

Lunex Prosper is the next generation's blueprint towards a sustainable human presence on the Moon. The project was done in collaboration with the Luxembourg Space Agency. My contribution lies in team and project management (I led a team of 18 people in 7 time zones, focusing on 6 main research directions), research on challenges and tech solutions in lunar mining, manufacturing in low gravity, and lunar dust mitigation strategies. In addition, I analyzed current and foreseeable challenges and risks in lunar exploration and habitation, and designed strategic scenarios of the lunar economy, including potential industries and technological advancements.

Read the research paper presented at the International Astronautical Congress, Milan, Italy, 2024.

This project was born thanks to Lockheed Martin sponsoring one of the working groups on Mars Sample Return during 3 days of the Space Generation Congress 2021. I first got involved as a moderator of this working group, and later we continued this as a separate project. In this project, we focus, from a science and engineering point of view, on how it is decided which research projects are most important and how to engage the different categories of stakeholders, and how do we guarantee findings are disseminated sufficiently, and how do we ensure that sample protection measures are adhered to?

Read the research paper presented at the International Astronautical Congress, Paris, France, 2022.

As part of this project, I led the team of 4 to propose a Conceptual Design of a Lunar Dust Removing Vehicle as an independent European robotic mission based on the forefront dust mitigation tech. I contributed to the design of lunar dust cleaning systems that can operate in multiple environments, clean multiple surfaces, and collect the dust for scientific purposes. In addition, I contributed to the Lunar Exploration Technology Adaptive Roadmap as part of the Technical Unit Research for a Thriving Lunar Ecosystem.

Read the research paper on Lunar Dust Removing Vehicle presented at the International Astronautical Congress, Dubai, UAE, 2021.

Every year, I coach a team of young professionals during an 11-month program to help them deliver a research paper and recommendations for project managers on the challenges and opportunities in the space sector. As a result of the programme, all teams of Young Professionals present their work at the IPMC workshop one day before the International Astronautical Congress and at one of its technical sessions. I focus on the topics of innovation in the space sector, commercial space, and NewSpace. In addition, as a Deputy Project Manager, I aid in facilitating all operational activities of the programme.

Learn more about the workshop, including reports containing recommendations.

Check the research paper of one of the teams I coached: Business Innovation in Commercial Space: Culture and Trends in Earth Observation

As part of this group, I focus on the coordination of technical aspects, including standards, protocols, information sharing, and infrastructure requirements, with a focus on interoperability.

Learn more about GEGSLA, its working groups and documents, including reports for the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS).

DIA, Domi Inter Astra, is our project of a near-term lunar settlement using current or very-near-future technologies. The work is done by a team of 18 people located all around the world.

Check the winner announcement and our lunar settlement design.

As part of this competition, I designed a self-supporting city on Mars for 1 million people in a team of 27 people from 19 countries and 10 time zones.

Watch our final round presentation on YouTube or check our design published in a book, "Mars City States: New Societies for a New World."

Throughout the last 5 years, I have been part of the organizing team of many conferences, competitions, and congresses. I usually work on program and sponsorship opportunities, and I also moderate working groups. Here are some of the examples:

Benelux Space Startup Competition 2025 (Organizing Team) - Rotterdam, The Netherlands

SpaceCon 2023 (Organizing Team) - Paris, France

Space Generation Congress 2022 (Organizing Team) - Paris, France

European Space Generation Workshop 2022 (Moderator) - Limassol, Cyprus

SpaceCon 2021 (Organizing Team and Competition Judge) - Paris, France

Space Generation Congress 2021 (Moderator) - Dubai, UAE

Space Generation Fusion Forum 2021 (Organizing Team and Moderator) - Colorado, USA

I devoted 4 years to the nonprofit organization Health & Help, most of it in the Development Officer (Fundraiser) position. Health & Help is dedicated to delivering basic medical care to people in detached rural communities of Guatemala and Nicaragua. During my time in the organization, as one of the examples, I supported the running of a program aimed at malnourished children leading to multiple detached villages being covered, recruited and led the grant writing team, set up a foundation for the medicine and patients accounting system, and carried out strategic planning, grant writing, grant reporting, and partnership building with foundations and organizations.

Learn more about the organization and its activities.