Prof. Francesco Topputo has 20-year experience in project coordination, gained through his role as Full Professor in Space Systems at Polimi and as co-founder at Dinamica (2008-2017) and Nautilus (2021-). His core research activity involves interplanetary CubeSat mission design, autonomous guidance, navigation, and control, and nonlinear astrodynamics. He has been PI of the LUMIO mission studies and is also involved in ESA’s M-ARGO and Milani CubeSat missions design. He is an ERC laureate (CoG 2019) and has been PI in 15 research projects, with approximately €5M research grants allocated to work under his direction. He leads the Deep-space Astrodynamics Research and Technology (DART) group composed of 1 Senior Assistant Professor, 4 PostDoc Fellows, 11 PhD Students, and 1 Research Assistant. He has authored 60 peer-reviewed articles published in international journals and over 200 works in total.