2025 MVA Moon Market Annual Award – Nominees Announcement

The 2025 MVA Moon Market Annual Award call for candidates registered an exceptional response rate. For the 3rd edition of this Award created in 2023, we have organized the fourteen nominees among four sections.

This is meant to allow balanced access to the Award by various projects from individual and organizations of diverse backgrounds, sizes, and levels of funding.

The four sections read as follows: Enterprises, Universities & Institutions, Student Teams & Young Entrepreneurs, and Independent Individual Projects.

Please note that the winners will be announced publicly at the MVA Annual Workshop scheduled for 3-4 December 2025 in Turin, Italy.

Winners will be informed privately in advance so that they can make travel arrangements.

THE NOMINEES IN EACH SECTION ARE THE FOLLOWING:

SECTION: ENTERPRISES (4 nominees)

CANADA
Parisa Haji, CEO & Co-founder, Matrix GEMINI Inc.
Project: Lunar Metropolis

ITALY
Gabriele Carrozza, CEO, iSaisei Corporation  
Project: Oxygen Space

SINGAPORE
Francois Dubrulle, Founder & CEO, QOSMOSYS
Project: QPrism

U.S.A.
Jeff Max, Chief Executive, Magna Petra Corp.
Project: Helium-3 Isotopes Extraction

SECTION: UNIVERSITIES & INSTITUTIONS (3 nominees)

EGYPT
Samer El Sayary, Assistant professor of Architecture, Alexandria University and Beirut Arab University
Project: Pine Flex Lunar Biome

EGYPT
Dr. Mona Abd Elsalam Hassan, Project Founder, Global Innovation Center
Project: Moon Valley – Space Advertising Concept

U.S.A.
James Wertz, President, Microcosm; Adjunct Professor, USC, Microcosm and University of Southern California
Project: Selene: a Near-Term, Low-Cost, High-Income, Commercial and International Lunar  Settlement

SECTION: STUDENTS TEAMS & YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS (4 nominees)

AUSTRIA + TÜRKIYE, IRAN, INDIA, NETHERLANDS
Tugcag Dumlupinar, Group Leader, The Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) -Space Exploration Project Group (SEPG)  
Project: Lunar Regolith-based Thermal Energy Storage

JORDAN
Mohammad Al-Shrouf, Team Lead, Lunar Energizers Team : Energy Efficiency Trainer – German Jordanian University
Project: Lunar Energizers – “Lunar-based Solar Power Station with  Microwave Power Transmission Satellite Orbiter”

KENYA
Noela Weramundi, Team Lead, University of Nairobi
Project: Lunar Lander Interface

U.S.A.
LuisTorres CEO / Founder, Torres Orbital Mining
Project: TOM

SECTION: INDEPENDENT INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS (3 nominees)

AUSTRALIA
Jeremy Kruckel, independent project
Project: LRS – Lunar Rescue Sled

EGYPT
Hassan Abouseada, independent project
Project: LIDR – Lunar Integrated Data Repository

MEXICO
Javier Maldonado Romo Co-founder, Hyoksi Tech
Projects: ISAM (Circular In-Space Manufacturing Platform to Regenerate Debris) & VLSS (Virtual Life Support System)