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Complesso dei SS. Marcellino e Festo
Largo S. Marcellino 10
Napoli, Campania, 80138
Italy

Antonello Nolletti

Mechanical Engineer & Volleyball Coach

Antonello Nolletti è un Ingegnere Meccanico napoletano e tecnico di pallavolo classica e paralimpica, per disabilità fisiche ed intellettive relazionali. Ha contribuito, tra i primi allenatori, allo sviluppo del Sitting Volley in Italia. Come tecnico regionale campano, ha vinto il primo campionato maschile per soli atleti paralimpici, reclutato e formato atleti e atlete per le nascenti nazionali italiane. Sogna di dedicarsi alla realizzazione di carrozzine, protesi ed altri ausili sportivi.

Carla Guerriero

Associate Professor of Public Economics

Carla is an Associate Professor of Public Economics at the University of Naples Federico II. Her research explores the intersections between the environment—particularly climate change—health, and economics. Carla’s research specializes in health economics and the interdisciplinary study of environmental health interventions. Her book project focuses on the methodology for conducting cost-benefit analyses of such interventions, integrating insights from economics, public health, and environmental science. Her work explores the economic incentives for addressing environmental degradation and climate change, with a particular emphasis on their impacts on human health. Carla also investigates the dynamics of patient mobility and healthcare quality, with a focus on the Italian healthcare system. Her most recent ongoing research examines the promotion of sustainable and healthy diets for children and the economic implications of fast fashion.

Donato Giovannelli

Professor of Microbiology at the University of Naples Federico II

Donato Giovannelli is an Entrepreneur and a Microbial Ecologist working on the microbiology of extreme environments. He is Professor of Microbiology at the University of Naples Federico II were he works on the coevolution of Life and Planet. He is also Affiliated Scientist at the Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo, a Visiting Associate Research Professor at Rutgers University, USA and an adjunct scientist at the Institute for Marine Biological and Biotechnological Resources of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR-IRBIM) in Ancona, Italy, and a guest investigator at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), USA. I am also part of a new no-profit institute dedicated to exploring the origins and nature of consciousness, YHouse, located in Manhattan, New York, USA.

Eleonore Cassandra Poli

Analogue Astronaut

La dott.ssa Eleonore Poli è ricercatrice in materiali e ingegneria presso il CSEM in Svizzera, con un dottorato di ricerca in Materiali e Metallurgia presso l'Università di Cambridge, e astronauta analogica. È stata comandante dell'equipaggio di Asclepios I, supporto a terra per FMARS, co-comandante del team GOST di AMADEE-24, ricercatrice per le missioni ICARES-2 e relazioni spaziali per la missione BIODYSSEUS. Ha fondato CHASM, la Community on Human Analogue Space Missions e PARACHASM, un consorzio di ricerca sui parastronauti. È un'atleta dilettante, pianista e fotografa. È membro del consiglio di amministrazione del Museo Spaziale Svizzero e di hepta.aero. Ed è stata addestrata per spedizioni e ambienti estremi.

Eline Goethals

Public Health Activist

Eline Goethals worked as a Strategy Director in the advertising for over eleven years, working with global brands like NIVEA and Carlsberg, and earning awards for effectiveness and creativity. Yet, a nagging question kept growing: What am I doing this for? Wanting to have a more positive impact on the world and feeling trapped in the slot machine of advertising, Eline made the radical decision to quit her career and join the fellowship at the School for Moral Ambition. Now, she uses her influence for good, focussing tobacco control.

Fabio Crameri

Geoscientist & Graphic Designer

Fabio is a geodynamic modeller and graphic designer from Davos, Switzerland. In his scientific work, he creates regional and global numerical models of the Earth’s interior, and focusses on the evolution of plate tectonics and mantle convection in the Earth and in Earth-like planetary bodies. As a free-lance graphic designer, he creates scientific visualisations, illustrations, and artwork, but also logos and webpages via Undertone.design. He offers various numerical modelling and graphic design masterclasses.

Giovanni Covone

Astrophysicist & Science Communicator

Giovanni Covone is an astrophysicist working in the fields of exoplanets and observational cosmology. In particular he is interested in searching Earth-like planets, the study of the astrophysical conditions for life in the Universe and understanding the riddle of dark matter by means of astrophysical observations. He is an active science communicator and an author. He is also interested in the dialogue between physicists and philosophers, in their common effort to understand the external world and our role within as a species.

Mikko Puumala

Postdoc Researcher in Philosophy

Mikko Puumala is a postdoc researcher in University of Turku, Finland. Mikko’s research interests include environmental ethics, space ethics, and philosophy of sustainability. In space ethics, his focus is mainly on ethical and political issues pertaining to space settlements, environmental protection in outer space, and property rights. Mikko is broadly interested in how extreme scenarios, high risks, and complex problems affect our systems of ethics and moral beliefs and what kind of challenges they pose for moral theorizing.

Mykyta Osadchyi

Science Communicator

Mykyta is a science communicator and content creator from Kyiv, Ukraine. He’s been working with the BBC producing science and education reels for Instagram and right now he’s doing his master’s in science communication at University College London. There’s nothing he’d love to do more than to make science and nature documentaries that shed light on real-world issues facing our planet and the people on it. He’s particularly interested in the topics of science misinformation and nature conservation. He’s quite a big fan of oak trees.

Sathesh Raj

Climate & Space Innovation Advocate

Sathesh Raj is passionate about climate action and space innovation. He has participated in movements like Extinction Rebellion, developed climate solutions using space tech, and led the "Peaks of Paradise" project, uncovering Malaysian forest data through visualization. An alum of British Council’s Future News Worldwide, he is part of Time To Rice, an award-winning research team advancing climate science communication. Currently completing his master’s in Astrobiology, Sathesh recently won third prize in China’s MoonStation2050 Global Innovation Competition for his lunar energy system design.

Silvana Pinna

Astrobiologist & Space Entrepreneur

Dr. Silvana Pinna is a researcher in astrobiology, driven by a deep passion for exploring the conditions that allow life to emerge and evolve on Earth and beyond. As president of AbGradE and a representative on the EANA Council, Silvana actively engages with the international astrobiology community. She also co-founded PARSEC Space, a startup focused on advancing human space exploration, currently incubated at ESA BIC Sweden. Through her work, Silvana combines cutting-edge research with entrepreneurial innovation to push the boundaries of space exploration, while enjoying singing in her spare time.

Vito Fiacco

Muncipal Councellor

Vito Fiacco ha 26 anni è uno studente di Giurisprudenza prossimo alla Laurea e Consigliere Comunale di Pomigliano d’Arco. Da quando ha 14 anni è impegnato nell’attivismo politico: è stato rappresentante degli studenti durante gli anni del liceo, membro della consulta provinciale degli studenti di Napoli, membro dell’esecutivo di un sindacato studentesco, candidato a Sindaco della sua città a 24 anni risultando il più giovane candidato sindaco di sempre della sua città e oggi consigliere comunale.