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Nunzia Favaloro is an aerospace researcher whose work sits at the critical intersection of space exploration technologies, planetary surface operations, and advanced materials science. Based at CIRA (the Italian Aerospace Research Centre), Favaloro has dedicated her career to solving some of the most pressing challenges facing future lunar and Martian missions. Her research has made particularly notable strides in the field of dust mitigation — a deceptively complex problem that threatens both robotic and crewed operations on the Moon, where electrostatically charged regolith particles can damage equipment, compromise life support systems, and obstruct optical surfaces. Her 2023 paper on high-performance polymer design for passive lunar dust mitigation represents an innovative materials-based approach to this challenge, while her complementary work on broader dust mitigation strategies demonstrates the depth of her expertise in this domain. Favaloro has also contributed meaningfully to long-term programmatic thinking, co-authoring roadmaps for both lunar enabling technologies and Mars research development. With nearly 20 citations across her most prominent works and a research trajectory clearly aligned with humanity's ambitions beyond Earth orbit, Favaloro is an emerging voice in the next generation of space exploration science.