Ioannis Michalou(di)s is a visual artist, academic, internationally acknowledged as a leading researcher in art&sciense , and the first to apply NASA’s nanomaterial silica aerogel in fine art and design. He received his PhD in Visual Arts from the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne in 1998. He received a Fulbright grant in 2001 to pursue postdoctoral research on art and nanotechnology at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT. It is where he started his research on the application of silica aerogel in Visual Arts. In 2005 he had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens and in 2007 he received the Golden Lighthouse award at the XXIVth Biennale for Mediterranean Countries, Alexandria, Egypt. He has published extensively in academic journals and book chapters. He has been invited to numerous international Art&Science exhibitions and conferences. In 2012 he moved with his family to Australia and between 2016 and 2018 he coordinated the post-graduate program in Visual Arts at Charles Darwin University, Australia. He returned to Europe, September 2018 when he was appointed as Research Associate at the NCSR “Demokritos, Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Athens, Greece. For Michalou(di)s the ethereal and exotic nanomaterial silica aerogel resembles the delicate sky and his artworks are some kind of spiritual SOS -Save Our Sky- warning signals. A significant achievement of Michalou(dis) is that two of his silica aerogel artworks were selected to be part of the MoonArk project that will be included in a mission to the moon rocketed to the moon in July 2021.