Victoria Alonsoperez

Victoria Alonsoperez is Chair for the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC).  SGAC works to link together university students and young professionals to think creatively about international space policy issues and inject the new generation point of view into international space policy creation.  Alonsoperez is a specialist in electronic, telecommunications and electrical engineering and in 2013 she co-founded IEETECH, a social enterprise that looks for efficient engineering solutions to current problems.  IEETECH projects earned Alonsoperez the Best Young Inventor Award from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the winning slot in the International Telecommunications Union Young Innovators Competition.  Alonsoperez has been involved with the International Space University Space Studies Program, in 2012 serving as the Space Engineering Department Teaching Associate, and in 2011 participating as a student in the Space Studies Program.  While at ISU in 2011, her project with fellow students won the Barcelona Zero-G Aerobatics Challenge.  In 2009, she was awarded the International Astronautical Federation Youth Grant that enabled her to participate in the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) and the Space Generation Congress (SGC). Alonsoperez is a contributor in "Space Mission Analysis and Design Core” and is the managing editor of a book on small satellite programs that is part of the United States Air Force Academy’s Space Technology Series.   Alonsoperez graduated from Universidad de le Republica, the International Space University and Singularity University.