Camilla Colombo is an Associate Professor in Orbital Mechanics at Politecnico di Milano and Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded project COMPASS. Before that, she was an Associate Professor and Lecturer in Spacecraft Engineering at the University of Southampton in the Astronautics Research Group until Jul 2016. She was awarded her PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Glasgow (UK) in 2010. Her research areas include spaces among orbital dynamics, trajectory design and optimisation, dynamical system analysis and control, and space mission analysis and design. She is a delegate for the Inter Agency Debris Coordination Committee and the UN-mandated Space Mission Planning Advisory Group for missions to asteroids.