Aliya Grig is a Founder, CEO of The Cosmos City and Human Cosmos App. Writer, space visionary, innovator and tech entrepreneur. Aliya has a 12-year background in hardware tech and urban development. Aliya successfully launched and sold two hardware startups - technology for creating solid oxide fuel cells, and aluminum scandium alloy for the aerospace industry - raising $220m for these projects with key customers - Boeing, Bloom Energy, Mitsubishi. 

Aliya's other projects include the construction of an 80-hectare Industrial Park and town development with 50 000 residents in the Sverdlovsk region in Russia; three space tech startups for 3D printing in space; a light launch vehicle start-up; also cubesat technologies were created and received its first customers. Two of the space tech startups were successfully sold to strategic investors. 

Aliya’s projects received awards from ESA (European Space Agency), CDL (Creative Destruction Lab), Starburst (as an innovative startup for space mobility). Aliya participated as a space habitations expert in NASA’s competition to construct a Mars base in 2017 with Apis Cor. 

Aliya was a mentor in Skolkovo (the largest EU and CIS innovation center and Technopark for startups), is a mentor at the St Petersburg State University School of Management, and a guest Professor for Marketing in the Moscow Higher School of Economics. Aliya was listed as one of the Top 100 Young Entrepreneurs in Europe by Forbes magazine and Top 100 women entrepreneurs in AI and Big data by Leta Capital. Aliya is engaged in the development and support of scientific projects in the field of new materials, deep space exploration, and initiates and leads projects in the field of education and art (in particular, a project within the Venice Biennale in 2015, support for gifted children in the field of music).