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Interdisciplinary physicist, planetary scientist, science communicator and educator, master of triple helix principles. Quantum Progress. "Dial down the hype, increase the understanding." Providing quantum technology storyform analysis to help the Deep Tech community track the quantum technology progress. Broad and Deep Use Case Knowledge. Particular knowledge about the Hybrid Quantum-Classical computing, the Optimization Landscape, Easiest Quantum Business Cases to start, Quantum Drones, Quantum Technology Ecosystem building, and the Chinese quantum technology ecosystem. Prior Project Building: Building the space capacities of the Baltic region, especially in climate citizen science (www.ellf.eu).Building in-space resource utilization capacities, especially asteroid science, in Europe. Building New Space knowledge to support space fund investors, everywhere.A. Graps, winner of the 2018 Europlanet Public Engagement Prize, is a senior planetary scientist, working in the space sciences since 1980 with data from nearly every planet in the solar system and with data from much further away. She has 40 years total experience working in international (two continents) astronomy, astrophysics, and planetary science research with 10 years of experience specializing in the charging and dynamics of cosmic dust. Self-funded research began in 2006. Project management in 2009. Fifteen funded (NASA, European Commission, Interreg/EstLat-2020, Luxembourg Ministry of the Economy) projects. Amara Graps has 13 leading author/ 22 co-author publications & 85 presentations since 1982. She has been building space projects in the Baltics with affiliations: Planetary Science Institute (USA), University of Latvia (LV) and BiS with one startup experience (Deep Space Industries Latvia) since moving to Riga, Latvia in 2012.Industry: Validation of Space Technologies for Space Fund builders. Roadmap tracking of Quantum Technologies.Academic Research: Properties of asteroid regolith and the origin of water on the terrestrial planets. Outreach: Excite the young mind of the science of their world before boredom takes it away. Science Interests:1) Investigating the link between the global processes affecting atmospheric warming and Earth’s brightness variations .. using citizen science. Let me introduce you to ELLF!2) Electrostatically sticky dust on asteroid surfaces is a hazard and it can move! 3) The origin of water on Earth.Hobby interests : Rasberry Pis! As a portable weather station or pollution detector.Do you love wavelets? Me too. Let me introduce you.

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