I am Senior Lecturer (Assoc. Prof.) in Space Engineering and UKRI FL Fellow since 2022 in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of the University of Liverpool. I have joined the department in 2019 as Lecturer (Asst. Prof.).
 

I am currently PI of the UKRI-funded REMORA (REndezvous Mission for Orbital Reconstruction of Asteroids: A fleet of Self-driven CubeSats for Tracking and Characterising Asteroids) Project. I am science team member as astrodynamicist Co-I for three asteroid missions: ESA's Hera mission, NASA's DART mission and JAXA's Hayabusa 2 mission. I was the PI of the "Hayabusa 2" superior solar conjunction mission phase in late 2018. I worked at the JAXA’s Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) from 2016 until 2019 after completing a one year JSPS Postdoc Research Fellowship at the same institution. I received my Ph.D. in October 2016 from the Astronautical Research Group of the University of Southampton, UK after I have graduated for both her MSc and BEng degrees in Space and Aerospace Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

 

My research interests lie in Astrodynamics, Guidance, Navigation & Control (GNC) algorithms for proximity operations around small celestial bodies, ejecta particles dynamics, planetary science, space robotics, solar sail technology and machine learning.