Advenit Makaya is an Advanced Manufacturing Engineer at the European Space Research and Technology Centre of the European Space Agency. He supports the development of advanced materials and processes for space applications and provides Materials and Processes support to ESA missions. In this context, Advenit is coordinating the Out-of-Earth Manufacturing initiative, aiming to foster the development of technologies for on-orbit and on-planet manufacturing. Advenit is also supporting the definition and implementation of activities in the field of space resources utilisation for in-situ manufacturing. Advenit previously worked in industry in the U.K., on lifing of critical parts for large civil aircraft engines. His background is in research on advanced metallic materials, conducted in academic and national institute laboratories in Sweden and Japan. He holds a PhD in Materials Processing from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, as well as an Engineering MSc degree from Ecole Centrale de Lyon, in France