Aleksejs Klokovs is the director of Engineering Research Institute “Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre” (VIRAC) of Ventspils University of Applied Sciences (VUAS).

Aleksejs is a strong engineering professional with a PhD focused in Engineering

Technology, Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering from Riga Technical University.

Aleksejs is a member of the board of the International Low Frequency Array (LOFAR)

Telescope (ILT) and a member of JIVE-ERIC council, the Joint Institute for VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometry) ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium). In Europe, VLBI is organized through the European VLBI Network (EVN). He is a member of the EVN Consortium Board of Directors as

well. This network of radio telescopes located primarily in Europe and Asia, with additional antennas in South Africa and Puerto Rico, which performs very high angular resolution observations of cosmic radio sources. The EVN is the most sensitive VLBI array in the world, and the only one capable of real-time observations.

Aleksejs is developing the first Latvian Space Research Center that can provide high quality research and education services in the fields of space technology and science.

Amara Lynn Graps / Amara Linna Grapa is an American - Latvian, with nearly 40 years

working on (15) international space projects and missions, with data from nearly every

planet in the solar system.

During the late 1990s, charging and dynamics of the smallest particles: cosmic dust, became her focus for her PhD and postdoc in Germany and Italy and Colorado. Then her professional universe expanded considerably in the mid2010s, with sustainable space growth as her Baltic niche, for developing and integrating multi-institute, inclusive-society international space projects. Amara's current niches are small body planetary science, citizen climate science, CubeSat education, asteroid mining. She is an advocate for Eastern European planetary scientists, girls in STEM, and Baltic space workers.

Pauls Irbins is a president of Latvian Space Industry Association and a head of the Space Education Centre project under development in the city of Cesis. Pauls is also leading a student rocket project at Riga Technical University and a team of engineers building the first Latvian space rocket. With academic background in self-organisation of social systems, Pauls has consulted companies and startups for process improvements, product innovations and sales management.