Pietro Nannipieri received his Ph.D. in Information Engineering in 2020 cum laude from the University of Pisa, where he is currently a post-doc researcher. His interests are digital and VLSI design, electronics for space applications, and cryptography. Pietro spent several months in 2019 as a Visiting Researcher in the TEC-EDP Section in ESTEC (ESA), where he carried out different qualification tests on the SpaceFibre technology. His research focuses on hardware IPs for satellite onboard data handling, signal processing, and hardware cryptography. He is currently working on the European Processor Initiative (EPI) project.