Joseph E. Palaia, IV

Joseph Palaia is the Vice President of Operations / R&D at the 4Frontiers Corporation and is a Manager at NewSpace Center, LLC.

At the 4Frontiers Corporation (www.4FrontiersCorp.com), Mr. Palaia served in both engineering and management roles in two comprehensive Mars settlement design efforts. He has co-authored technical papers on the topics of Mars surface nuclear power planet design, Mars settlement architecture and space economics, and recently completed a book chapter on the topic of the economics of energy on Mars.  His most recent project, a spin-off venture from 4Frontiers, is NewSpace Center, LLC which is creating a new space-themed attraction and research facility in central Florida.

Mr. Palaia holds a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a master’s degree in Nuclear Science & Engineering from MIT. In various appointments throughout his career, he has developed electrical and mechanical systems in robotics, plasma processing and space propulsion applications.  He is the recipient of the 2005 Peter Diamandis Leadership Award and the 2007 Young Professionals Entrepreneurship Prize, awarded by the Luigi Gerardo Napolitano Society and the International Astronautical Federation.