Raffaele Savino is full Professor of Aerodynamics, Aerospace Propulsion and Space Experimentation at the University of Naples "Federico II". He has been lecturer at the Italian Air Force Academy since 1998 and is currently a research associate at the CNR Institute of Science and Technology of Ceramic Materials (ISTEC). Member of doctoral schools at universities abroad, such as the Université Libre in Brussels, the International Space University in Strasbourg, ETH in Zurich, he was a visiting professor at the Shibaura Institute of Technology (Tokyo), Utsunomiya University, Kyushu University in Japan (2009, 2010, 2014). He has been responsible for several national and international research programmes, in collaboration with space agencies (ASI, ESA, NASA, JAXA) and European aerospace industries. He was, among other things, a member of the Scientific Committee of the Microgravity Advanced Research and Support Center and organizer of several international conferences. He is the representative of the University of Naples Federico II in the International Astronautical Federation and the Italian representative in the committee of the AIAA International Space Planes and Hypersonic Systems and Technologies Conference. Since 2018 he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Aerospace District of Campania (DAC). He is author of books and over 250 articles in the fields of Aerothermochemistry, Fluid Physics, Hypersonics, Microgravity Fluid dynamics, Aerospace Propulsion.