About me!

Titles

• Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association (FAsMA) – since June 20th, 2020;
• Doctor in Philosophy – since March 21st, 2019 (PhD);
• Engineer.

Honours and Achievements:

• IEEE EMBS AdCOM Representative of Europe (from 2022 to 2024);
• Mentor and Role Model of the Space4Women network of United Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) (since 2020);
• President of the Aerospace Human Factors Association (since 2018);
• Member-at-Large of the Aerospace Medical Council (since 2019);
• Co-Leader of the Space Exploration Project Group of the Space Generation Advisory Council (since 2019);
• Member of the Steering Committee of The Mars Society (since 2018).

Work:

• AIKO – Autonomous Space Missions
• Mars University;
• Member of the Advisory Board of InnovaSpace (UK);
• Tufts University (USA);
• TU Delft (The Netherlands);
• National University of Ireland Galway (Rep. of Ireland);
• King’s College London (UK);
• University of Pisa (Italy).

Education:

• Space Studies Program (International Space University – The Netherlands) ;
• Structured PhD in neural engineering (National University of Ireland Galway – Rep. of Ireland);
• Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in biomedical engineering (University of Pisa – Italy).

Invited as keynote speaker by the:

• CTBT Science and Technology Conference 2021 – High Opening Level –Space science and technology for global sustainable development, peace, and security
• ESA Astronaut Selection Campaign – Episode #3 – All of them to be the next generation of astronauts?
• United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs – “Pushing Frontiers: Human Spaceflight and Disability“
• Working Group on Space and Global Health 2020 and 2021- United Nations
• Space & Extreme Environment Research Center of the Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre
• Lunar Night Survival Workshop – Universities Space Research Association
• University of Southampton (UK)
• University of Porto (Portugal)
• University of Pisa (Italy)
• TEDx Padova
• International Space Medicine Bellagio Summit II 2017
• ESA Moon-Mars workshop
• Harvard University (USA)
• Xpomet (Germany) 
• MIT New Space Age Conference (USA)

Awards:

• Seal of Excellence released by the European Union 2020;
• Finalist of the EuroMoonMars/ArtMoonMars ESA 2019
• Travel grant by the Tufts Postdoctoral Association 2019
• 60th British Applied Mathematics Colloquium bursary from the University of St. Andrews (UK) 2018
• Anita Mantri Scholarship 2018 by the Aerospace Medical Association
• Winner of multiple Emerging Space Leaders Scholarships (2016 and 2017) by The Mars Society
• Winner of the IEEE EMB talks in modelling (2018)
• Winner of the ESA scholarship (2018) by the International Space University
• Winner of the Research and Development Innovation Award of Life Sciences and Biomedical Engineering Branch of the Aerospace Medical Association (2014).

Featured on: HBO, French TV, VICE USA and Italy, Irish Times, Engineers Ireland, Rai TV, La Repubblica, Le Monde, IEEE Pulse and many others.

Publications: Ilaria Cinelli Google Scholar.