Speaker · Argentina Space 2026
Roberto Giménez
Co-founder · Space Education Foundation
Engineer and co-founder of the Space Education Foundation. Trained in aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Tennessee, he built his career in the United States in infrastructure engineering, industrial facilities and large-scale projects. In Salta he will share a perspective on the challenges of conquering space.
November 11, 12 and 13, 2026 · Salta Convention Center
About
Roberto Giménez is an engineer and co-founder of the Space Education Foundation (Fundación Educación Espacial). He built his career in the United States in technical and leadership roles across mechanical, industrial and manufacturing engineering: facility and infrastructure design, construction, commissioning, operation and maintenance of large-scale industrial projects, and building high-performing teams.
He was engineering manager and plant engineering manager at Wacker Chemical in Tennessee, and now works in infrastructure engineering for the aerospace industry. He trained as a mechanical technician at the Bunge & Born Technical School, studied electromechanical engineering in Buenos Aires and aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Tennessee, where he won first place in the National Science Foundation undergraduate research programme with a laser interference lithography device for producing nanowires. In Salta he offers a perspective on the challenges of conquering space.
On the program
- The challenges of conquering space
Career highlights
- Co-founder, Space Education Foundation
- Senior infrastructure engineer in the aerospace industry (since 2021)
- Engineering Manager and Plant Engineering Manager, Wacker Chemical (2011–2021)
- Regional Field Engineer, WAMGROUP (2006–2011)
- First place, National Science Foundation undergraduate research programme
Education
- Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Electromechanical Engineering, Buenos Aires
- Mechanical Technician, Bunge & Born Technical School
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