About The Speaker

Marco Gomez-Jenkins
Marco Gomez-Jenkins is a Royal Society of Edinburgh Enterprise Fellow at the University of Cambridge where he is commercializing unfolding space telescope technology developed at the Institute of Astronomy. Marco and his colleagues are spinning out a company (Super-Sharp Space Systems) that will offer unfolding space telescopes to capture high-resolution thermal infrared images of the earth. He holds an MBA from Imperial College London and a Master's Degree in aerospace engineering from the Delft University of Technology. He is also a member of the Small Satellite Committee of the International Academy of Astronautics and of the Global Shapers Community of the World Economic Forum.