Anna Gregorio

Birthplace: Italy
Astrophysics Researcher, Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare

“Innovation is curiosity, the desire to understand the situations around us for the pleasure of discovering the world, shaping it by proposing new technologies (for space) to help progress, sharing them with society to improve it and achieve a more sustainable world.” 

Anna Gregorio holds a degree in physics from Trieste, a Master's degree in space systems engineering from TU Delft and a PhD degree from Scuola Normale Pisa. As an astrophysics professor at the University of Trieste, she coordinates instrument teams for large scientific space missions including the European Space Agency’s Planck and Euclid.  She serves on the boards of Elettra-Sincrotrone,SISSA-Medialab and Women in Aerospace-Europe, and she also evaluates projects for the European Commission. Anna co-founded PICOSATS, a spin-off of University of Trieste specialising in small satellites. In 2022, Forbes Italia listed her among its 100 most successful Italian managers. 

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