Eduardo Trifoni is the Director of the Space Test Program and Head of the National Space Test Facility, the largest space testing infrastructure in Australasia. Eduardo has over 25 years of experience carrying out independent research in technology frontier fields spanning from Experimental Aerothermodynamics to Hydrogen Energy, with major breakthroughs in hypersonic and space testing, PEM fuel cells and electrolyzers. Eduardo has been instrumental in the experimental development of many space vehicles capable of operating in Low Earth Orbit and withstanding the hypersonic entry phase, including twenty-two spacecraft successfully sent into orbit in the last five years.