Chiara Manfletti

Chiara Manfletti is the Chief Executive 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.  

Chiara is an eminent speaker and was a part of some of the most sought-after global space conferences:  

– 14th and 15th European Space Conference, Brussels  

– QSP Summit, Porto 2023  

– World Satellite Business Week, Paris, 2022 & 2023  

– EU Space Forum, 2023  

– Asia Satellite Business Week, Singapore, 2023  

– 12th IAASS Conference, Osaka, Japan, 2023  

– Satshow 2022 & 2023, Washington DC  

– 5th New Space Atlantic Summit, Aveiro (Portugal Space and European Space Agency)  

– Silicon Valley Space Week, Mountain View, 2022  

– Space Tech Expo Europe, 2022 & 2023 

– Portugal Air Summit EDP DSPA Insights Conference 

She is bestowed with the title of the “Mother of the Space Safety and Security Programmatic Pillar of ESA” and the “Creator of EuRoC”. Chiara has a Doctorate (Dr. -Ing) degree in Engineering from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, a Master Degree in Space Studies (MSS) from International Space University (ISU), Strasbourg, France and holds a Master of Engineering (MEng) in Aeronautical Engineering from Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, London, UK.  

Chiara Manfletti has a dual Italian and German nationality, loves hiking high mountains, photography, beekeeping, ornithology and constructing IoT devices.  

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