Missions
Turning emerging possibilities into ecosystems, markets and infrastructure.
A Solar System Internet for humanity
From interplanetary networking research to a global connectivity ecosystem.
Future communications between Earth, the Moon and deep space require an architecture fundamentally different from today's Internet.
The challenge was not simply technological. It was institutional, industrial and geopolitical: creating use cases, building awareness, aligning international actors, developing standards and moving the technology from research environments towards real deployment.
- Connected space agencies, industry and the scientific community.
- Helped translate DTN/IPN technologies from research environments towards industrial roadmaps and terrestrial pilots.
- Built international consensus around standards, use cases and deployment.
- Coordinated international positioning and ecosystem-building activity.
50+ international stakeholders mobilised
Solar System Internet reflected in ESA's long-term strategic vision
Spain, entrepreneurial nation
From a fragmented startup ecosystem to a shared national agenda.
24
300+
€4B+
Spain's entrepreneurial ecosystem was fragmented, without a shared national vision or a modern regulatory framework.
María helped build alignment across founders, investors, industry, regions and political actors, translating ecosystem needs into a common national agenda, building up from the regions, in a team display of unprecedented success (2015 - 2018).
Contribution to Spain's Startup Law and the national entrepreneurship and innovation agenda, including approximately €4B in the government's economic strategy.
Building the quantum ecosystem
From emerging science to sovereign infrastructure.
Over the past years, María has worked across the evolution of the European quantum ecosystem — from governance, standards and international cooperation to infrastructure deployment, industrial positioning, security and commercialization.
- 2020Entering the quantum frontierEarly engagement with the emerging European quantum ecosystem across science, industry, policy and international cooperation.
- 2021Building the narrativeEarly advocacy and ecosystem-building connecting quantum science with emerging industrial, policy and geopolitical agendas.
- 2022From technology to infrastructureStrategic engagement around MadQCI and Spain's emerging quantum communications infrastructure, connecting technology, industry, public institutions and security.
- 2023Quantum enters global governancePresented Quantum Security: Best Practices, Global Approaches and the Road Ahead at the UN Internet Governance Forum, Kyoto.
- 2024The quantum advantageFrom quantum security and infrastructure to the broader strategic implications of quantum advantage. Open Quantum Institute inaugurated at CERN, Geneva, alongside the European Declaration on Quantum Technologies signed by participating European countries.
- 2026From strategy to industrial & geopolitical advantageWorking in industrialization, global business development and geopolitics; translating quantum capabilities into use cases, industrial partnerships and international markets, while engaging with the implications of quantum advantage for sovereignty, security and global competition.
“The quantum industry no longer suffers from a lack of vision. It suffers from a shortage of pathways capable of turning vision into industrial reality.”
From 21 to 150+
Building Spain's dual-use technology ecosystem.
María built and scaled AMETIC's digital technologies for defence ecosystem from 21 organisations to more than 80 in under one year, contributing to its evolution into a broader dual-use technology environment with more than 150 industry members.
