Dr. Stamatios Krimigis is Chairman of the National Committee for Space Research of the Academy of Athens, and Advisor to the Minister of Digital Governance of Greece. Also, Emeritus Head of the Space Department at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, has built instruments that have flown to all 9 classical planets beginning with Mariner 4 to Mars in 1965, and is Principal Investigator on NASA’s Voyager 1, 2 spacecraft. He is a three-time recipient (1981, 1986, 2014) of NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal. In 1999 the International Astronomical Union named asteroid 1979 UH as 8323 Krimigis. Recent awards include the Council of European Aerospace Societies CEAS Gold Medal in 2011, the European Geophysical Union Jean Dominique Cassini Medal (2014), Washington's National Air and Space Museum Trophy for Lifetime Achievement (2015), the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal (2016), and the Theodore von Karman Award (2017) of the International Academy of Astronautics. He has published more than 630 papers in peer-reviewed journals and books, and is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, American Physical Society, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a member of the Academia Europaea), and was honored by a special resolution of the U. S. Senate "for exceptional contributions to space science" (2018).