SAY HI TO THE CREW!
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Anna Lewkowicz
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Lead Organizer
Karolina Popowska
Warsaw Univeristy of Technology, Poland
Financial Lead
Lucja Kozicka
Gdansk Univeristy of Technology, Poland
Communications Coordinator
CO-HOSTS
Alessandra Candian, PhD
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Joseph Borg, PhD
Univeristy of Malta, Malta
Harrison Smith, PhD
Earth-Life Science Institute, Japan
Eli Sofovich
University of Wisconsin Madison, USA
Charlotte Kelly
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Matthew Siedlecki
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Jessica Xhumari
University of Florida, USA
Afonso Mota
University of Porto, Portugal
Alexandre Branco
University of Porto, Portugal
Isabel Sousa
University of Porto, Portugal
Marta Cortesao
University of Porto, Portugal
Trifon Trifonov, PhD
Sofia University, Bulgaria
Vladimir Bozhilov, PhD
Sofia University, Bulgaria
Petar Eftimov
Sofia University, Bulgaria
Justyna Szerement, PHD
Lublin University of Technology, Poland
Shih-Feng Chiu (Ben), PhD
National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Katarzyna Debowczyk
Lublin University of Technology, Poland
Zuzanna Zawadzka
Lublin University of Technology, Poland
JUDGES
Borja Barbero Barcenilla, PhD
Borja is a plant and space biologist who leads experiments on how crops grow and cope with stress in extreme environments such as microgravity, radiation, and lunar or Martian regolith. He has served as lead scientist on NASA‑funded ISS missions and regolith agriculture projects, coordinated multi‑institutional research at Texas A&M University and NASA GeneLab, and plays leadership roles with the Moon Village Association and the regolith‑focused startup Hispansion
Ravi Changle, PhD
Ravi is a Chief AI Architect at Capgemini (CIO Advisory, Paris) and a globally recognized AI leader specializing in multi-agent systems, LLMOps, and responsible AI at enterprise scale. He contributes to NASA GeneLab, designing AI architectures for space-based omics research, including federated learning and low-power AI for autonomous space environments. His work focuses on ethical, secure, and scalable AI systems across cloud platforms, with a strong emphasis on governance, compliance, and real-world impact.
CONSULTANTS
Mathias Beck, PhD
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Project Consultant
Dibya Pradhan
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Scientific Advisor
Michal Poniatowski
Gdansk Univeristy of Technology, Poland
Institutional Coordinator
Tomas Ducai
ESA, France
DEI Advisor