Prof. Ioannis Michaloudis is a visual artist, researcher and academic, internationally acknowledged as a leader in Art&Science, and the first researcher worldwide to apply the ethereal nanomaterial silica aerogel in visual arts and design. His career began in Paris, at Sorbonne University, where he presented his thesis on Elastic Arts in 1998. After receiving a “Greek Artists” Fulbright Award in 2001, he undertook research on art and nanotechnology at MIT where he started his research on the application of the space age silica aerogel in visual arts. He is the author of eighteen papers and two book chapters and a book. He has twelve solo international exhibitions and had been invited in more than twenty international Art&Science exhibitions and conferences. He is a Research Associate at NCSR “Demokritos” in Greece. In 2020 he had realized with Boucheron Paris the first-ever high jewelry “Goutte de ciel”. Since October 2020 he is the Founding Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, American University of Cyprus (AUCY), Larnaca, Cyprus. An astonishing achievement of Prof. Michaloudis is that end of 2025, two of his silica aerogel aer( )sculptures will be rocketed to the moon and exist there for billions of years.