Chiara Manfletti is the Director and Chief Operating Officer at Neuraspace and the Professor of Space Propulsion and Mobility at the Technical University of Munich. At the early stage of her career, she worked for the German Aerospace Center, DLR, as a research engineer and later joined the European Space Agency (ESA) where she was the Programme Advisor to the Director General at the agency's headquarters in Paris. She was nominated as the first President of the then just founded Portuguese national space agency, Portugal Space. During her professional tenure, Chiara later headed the Policy and Programmes Coordination department at the ESA, prior to joining Neuraspace. Connect with her on LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube.
Carlos Cerqueira is the Head of Business Development at Neuraspace, a Portuguese start-up using AI to fight space debris. He was the former Director of the ESA Space Solutions Centre Portugal (http://space.ipn.pt/) and Innovation Director at Instituto Pedro Nunes, the technology transfer institution from Coimbra University.
He teaches Innovation Management at Coimbra University, both at the Faculty of Economics, in the Executive MBA and the Marketing MBA and at the Faculty of Science and Technology in the Data Science Degree.
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