Ronnie Nader Bello was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador July 10 1967. He graduated with an MS in systems engineering MCL in 1994 from the Universidad Catolica Santiago de Guayaquil, where he was the director of the campus computer lab until 1995.

Professional Summary

-First Ecuadorian astronaut in history, by completing the 16 months-ASA/T program at Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia
-Chief Designer of the Civilian Space Research Program for Ecuador
-Founder of the EXA - the Ecuadorian Civilian Space Agency.
-Chief Designer of Project DAEDALUS, the first LatinAmerican micro gravity plane,
-Mission director for Project POSEIDON, which achieved a micro gravity World Record for Ecuador granted by Guinness and the World Records Academy
-7 Aerospace missions flown as Mission Commander: EXA/FAE-01 to EXA/FAE-07
-Chief Engineer of the HYPERION Reactive Alert Network
-Chief Designer of Project HERMES - The first Internet-to-Orbit gateway.
-Creator of the program "A SATELLITE IN CLASSROOM", providing elementary schools with the capability of connecting in real time to weather satellites for use in live classrooms
-Chief engineer and leader of the team that built the 1st Ecuadorian satellite, the NEE-01 PEGASUS
-Chief engineer and leader of the team that built the 2nd Ecuadorian satellite, the NEE-02 KRYSAOR
-Mission Director for NEE-01 and NEE-02 1st Ecuadorian satellites launch and operation

-Elected Corresponding Member to the International Academy of Astronautics

-Electer Ambassador by the International Astronautical Federation for the International Astronautical Congress 2015

-Main Researcher at EXA

Ronnie Nader has published more than 50 scientific papers in which he was author and co-author, he speaks English, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian. His favorite sport is Landsailing.