Dr Carlo Saverio Iorio – Is an adjunct professor at the York University in Toronto - Canada and director of the Centre for Research and Engineering in Space Technologies of the University of Brussels - Belgium. He has more than 25 years of experience in Space-related science and technology programmes. His interests are mainly in heat and mass transfer phenomena, and material science for biomedical applications, and recently he inaugurated an artificial intelligence unit in his research group. At present, he coordinates several European Space Agency-supported experiments in microgravity taking advantage of the available Space platforms including sounding rockets, parabolic flights, satellite capsules and the International Space Station. He is one of the PIs of the first materials science experiment to be performed on the Moon on board the Emirati Lunar Rover ‘Rashid I”. He coordinates two ESA Microgravity Application programmes, and the ESA topical team on tissue healing and monitoring. Recently, he has been appointed as an expert on Space policy at the European Commission General Directorate on Defence, Space, and Industries. He is also a member of the European Space Agency strategic group for the design and implementation of future European Policies in Space.