Dr Nour RAOUAFI

Parker Solar Probe Project Scientist and Principal Professional Staff at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab. Dr. Nour E. Raouafi is an Astrophysicist and a Principal Professional Staff at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland. I am also the Project Scientist of NASA's Parker Solar Probe mission, which launched on August 12, 2018, and is the record holder of the closest man-made object to a star (i.e., the Sun) and also the fastest spacecraft. Parker will get as close as 3.8 million miles from the solar surface, that almost 4% of the Sun-Earth distance (i.e., 93 million miles)

Prof. Pierre ROCHUS

Professor Pierre Rochus is the Scientific Director of “Centre Spatial de Liège” and Professor at the University of Liège (Invited Professor at KUL (Leuven)).He is active in Space Technology for more than 35 years (Development of around 20 space instruments from 1988 and development of different lubrication units for the CFM 56 turbo-engines and Ariane-5 valves from 1981). He started his research in Theoretical Nuclear Physics in 1974. At IAF, he is the chairman of the IAF Space University Administrative Committee (SUAC) and Member of the IAF Materials and Structures Committee.

Dr Gérardine GOH ESCOLAR

Deputy Secretary General of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH), an international intergovernmental organisation working towards the progressive unification of the rules of private international law. Concurrently, I head the International Commercial, Digital and Financial Law portfolio at the HCCH, including the Digital Economy project, which looks at the implications of web3, AI, DLT, tokenisation and fintech.

Dr Mohamed ABID

Dr. Mohamed Abid (Mo) is the Mars 2020 Deputy Chief Mechanical Engineer and Manager of the Mechatronics group at JPL. Dr. ABID is lecturer in the Astronautics department at the University of Southern California (USC), and the author of the textbook "Spacecraft Sensors", a John Wiley & Sons publication. Dr. Abid holds a BS in Physics, an MS from Ecole Doctorale de l'Ecole Polytechnique, and a Ph.D. in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering from USC.

Dr Bobby NEJAD

Dr Fathi KAROUIA

Dr KAROUIA is. Res. Scientist (BMSIS), Exobiology Branch, NASA ARC; 2013-2019: Non-Rodent Portfolio Lead Scientist and Project Scientist, Space Biology Project, Space Biosciences Research Branch, NASA ARC; 2013-2019: Prof. Researcher (Research Professor), Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco; 2011-2013: Assistant Prof. Researcher (Assistant Research Professor), Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco; 2009-2011: NASA Postdoctoral Fellow/ORAU, Exobiology Branch, NASA ARC; 2008-2009: Institute for Space Systems Operations Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Houston; 2000-2003: Research Associate, Biomedical Branch, NASA Jonson Space Center; 2000-2001: Research Assistant, Oncology Branch, University of Texas Medical Branch; 1999-1999: Engineer, Strategic Planning, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales.

Dr Ed CHESTER

Dr CHESTER is a space mission ground segment systems engineer, working mostly with the world's first commercial deep space facilities at Goonhilly, UK. This complements previous space segment experience (and I am finally having to get to grips with RF). I have microelectronic, data systems, and operations specialisation. Experience in all phases of the mission life-cycle. Very proud to be one of the 3 ground-based co-pilots of Europe's first (and only, to date) successful landing on Mars.

Dr Mustapha MEFTAH

Dr MEFTAH is a passionate Research Scientist with 20+ years of experience in Astronomy & Astrophysics, Solar Physics, Climate Physics and aerospace instrumentation. Specialist of space environment and space instrumentation. Teacher in spacecraft systems engineering and instrumentation for space science. PI, CoI or Instrument scientist of several spaceflight instruments and CubeSat missions. Instigator of new physical reference quantities (total solar irradiance, solar diameter, solar spectrum). Member of a Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) task group on establishing a constellation of small satellites dedicated to Earth Observation.

Dr Albert-Houcine TOUATI

Dr TOUATI holds a PhD in "materials and process engineering applied in aerospace" from ENSI poitiers ( 2017). Subsequently, he carried out two post-doctorates at ENSI Poitiers, as part of a project coordinated by the company liebherr-aerospace and bringing together a consortium of French and American companies and academic laboratories. He was an associate researcher at the university of monastir (Tunisia) as part of a project involving several american organizations in the field of aerospace (2020-2021).

Ir Michael François

Michael François holds a Master in electro-mechanical engineering from University of Louvain-La-Neuve and has been active in space since 20 years. After 8 years working in Belgian space industries dealing with communication systems for low earth orbit satellites, space station payloads development or GPS/Galileo high precision receiver development, he joined the European Space Agency Technology Center (ESA/ESTEC) as project controller for small technology mission developments, in particular the first accurate dual spacecraft formation flying mission. He moved then to optical instrument development management for earth observation missions. He was in charge of the Vegetation payload on board the PROBA-V satellite developed by a Belgian industrial consortium and launched in 2013 or the development of a compact hyperspectral payload for small satellite. He is currently managing the development of the FLORIS instrument on board the FLEX mission, a world premiere complex optical instrument to quantify the photosynthesis activity from the vegetation by observing the photo induced fluorescence.