Daniela de Paulis is a former contemporary dancer and a media artist exhibiting internationally. She is also a licensed radio operator. Her artistic practice is informed by Space in its widest meaning. Since 2009 she has been implementing radio technologies and philosophies in her art projects. She is currently Artist in Residence at the SETI Institute (California) and Visiting Fellow at the Green Bank Observatory (West Virginia), with the support of the Baruch Blumberg Fellowship in Astrobiology. She collaborates with prominent research institutes, including the European Space Agency, INAF (Italian Research Institute for Radio Astronomy), the Donders Centre for Neuroimaging and the University of Cambridge, among others. For her projects, she is using state of the art radio telescopes, such as the Green Bank Telescope (West Virginia), the Allen Telescope Array (California), the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (UK), the Medicina Radio Telescope and the Sardinia Radio Telescope (Italy). Previously, she worked at historical antennas, such as the Bochum Radio Observatory (DE) and the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope (NL).

In 2009 she developed the Visual Moonbounce technology (also called EME SSTV), in collaboration with international radio operators, and for the past two decades she has been developing innovative projects combining radio technologies with live performance art and neuroscience. From 2010 to 2019 she collaborated with Astronomers Without Borders as the founder and director of the AstroArts programme. She is a Corresponding Member of the IAA (International Academy of Astronautics), a member of the IAA SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Committee and a member of the IAA Moon Far Side Protection Committee. She is part of the committee organizer for the Electronic Visualisation in the Arts conference in London (UK) and part of the editorial board for the Springer Space and Society series.

In addition to her artistic practice, she has published academic papers with the Leonardo MIT Journal, Routledge, Springer, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Inderscience, among others. She is the recipient of the Art of Neuroscience Prize 2022 with the project “Mare Incognito”, also presented at international art and film festivals and featured on Scientific American. Her project “A Sign in Space” is the Winner of the Gizmodo Science Fair 2024, and has been featured by international media outlets, including The New York Times, CNN, CBC, ABC Australia, Wired, Scientific American, as well as radio and television programmes. De Paulis is the winner of the Europlanet Prize for Public Engagement 2023. In November 2023, the International Astronomical Union named asteroid 52959 Danieladepaulis.