I am an engineering consultant working on qualification and installation of Ground Support Equipment for Vega-C, the evolved version of the European light launch vehicle Vega. I maintain documentation on subsystem interfaces within the GSE and with the rocket, take part in acceptance testing and supervise subcontractor activities. I have been a member of the launch crew for Vega flight 16.

Previously, I have been a Marie Curie early stage researcher at the University of Durham, dept. of Engineering, where I have worked on the fabrication of semiconducting nanowires for micro-mechanical devices, and in a teaching role as lead laboratory demonstrator, supporting 100+ students in their practical workshops on analog electronics and computer programming.

I graduated in Physics with a thesis on radiation-hard electronic design, writing and testing VHDL code for a fast fiber-optics transceiver as part of a feasibility study in replacing custom radiation-hard ASICs used in the ATLAS particle detector at LHC (CERN) with COTS FPGAs, augmented by forward error correction techniques.