About me
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology of the Politecnico di Milano. In 2019 I was awarded a PhD in Aerospace Engineering by the University of Southampton and since 2018 I am part of the COMPASS group led by Professor Camilla Colombo at the Politecnico di Milano. In 2020 I was awarded an MSCA IF – Global Fellowship for the CRADLE project to study the motion of particles orbiting asteroids and other small bodies and investigate possible ways to safely collect these samples in orbit via the preliminary design of a collection device. I started the CRADLE project in March 2021 in partnership with the Japan Space Exploration Agency (JAXA), the University of Padova, and D-Orbit.
Research Interests
My research interests are in the field of astrodynamics, spacecraft and asteroid re-entry, space debris assessment and mitigation strategies, small bodies dynamics, and mission design. I participated in international research projects in collaboration with ESA and ASI and I am the author of 40 research products among journal articles, conference proceedings and book chapters. I serve as a reviewer of international journals in the field of aerospace engineering and celestial mechanics.
Research Interests
- Mission trajectory design
- Small particles dynamics
- Uncertainty modelling and propagation
- Perturbed Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem
- Asteroids exploitability and reachability
- Sample-return missions
- Particle collection devices and strategies
- Mitigation and remediation strategies
- Space environment modelling
- Space sustainalbility and exploitability
- In-orbit fragmentations
- Ejecta models of kinetic impactors
- Space debris impacts
- Spacecraft vulnerability analyses
- Re-entry modelling of satellites and meteorites
- Re-entry predictions
- Destructive re-entry analyses
- Design-for-demise