Marco Molina

Bio

Graduated with honors in Aeronautical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, where he obtained the PhD in Aerospace Engineering. Second Lieutenant in the Italian Army Engineering Corp.

He is working since more than 30 years in the Italian national aerospace industry: since 2019 he is with Sitael, a company of the Angel group, where he holds the position of Managing Director. Sitael is the largest Italian space company with entirely private capital.

He has been the first in the world to experiment graphene in microgravity conditions, on a parabolic flight in 2018.

Marco has worked for more than twenty space missions, including the largest Science instrument on the International Space Station AMS-02, the most powerful hyperspectral observation instrument in Low Earth Orbit PRISMA and the first Italian all-electric satellite, MicroHETSat.

In 2022 he received the honor of the Italian President of the Republic "Stella al Merito del Lavoro".