M. Lucente was born in Rome, Italy, in 1977. He received the M.Sc. degree (“Laurea”) in Physics, specialised in Astrophysics and Space Physics, from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 2002. He was involved in studying the polarimeter of the BOOMERanG experiment (Balloon Observation of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation and Geophysics) with Prof. Paolo De Bernardis. In 2004/2005 he received the M.Sc. degree in “Advanced Communication and Navigation Satellite Systems” at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” and in 2021 the PhD in Aeronautical and Space Engineering with the thesis “Gravity Gradiometers for Planetary Geodesy: Requirements and Concept for a Space Instrument”, with advisor L. Iess, D. Lucchesi and F. Santoli. Since 2010 he has been working in the group of Experimental Gravitation at IAPS/INAF (Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology within National Institute for Astrophysics) in Rome and he has been involved in the on-ground calibration of a high sensitivity three axes accelerometer (ISA/Italian Spring Accelerometer), launched in 2018 and now in cruise on-board the ESA mission BepiColombo, devoted to the Mercury planet. He is involved as well in JUICE mission with the HAA accelerometer. Author of more than 50 papers, at present, his main fields of research concern capacitive accelerometers, sensors calibration, experiments of fundamental physics (Equivalence Principle verification), space systems engineering, gravitation theory and experiments.