Co-Founder & CCO
Yuri Gravity
Mark Kugel is the Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer of the German space company YURI. YURI is the one-stop shop for microgravity research. With reusable and modular bioreactors, access to a variety of ISS facilities, suborbital launchers and parabolic flights, they make microgravity research accessible to anyone. Payloads they have launched and are planning to launch include protein crystallization experiments, neural stem cells, cancer cells, fruit flies and rice plants. Mark serves as the link between the researcher’s requirements and the engineering team, advocating for microgravity research and its benefits. He holds a M.Sc. degree from the Technical University of Munich. More information about YURI: www.yurigravity.com