Giovanni Pecoraro has attended the Italian Air Force Academy from 2008 to 2013 and has received his University degree cum laude in Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Napoli "Federico II" in 2013. He also received a M.Sc. Degree in "Advanced Communication and Navigation Satellite Systems" in 2015 and got a Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering at the University of Roma "Tor Vergata" in 2019. Since 2013 Giovanni Pecoraro has been working at the Italian Space Control Center firstly as Head of Spacecraft Operations and then as responsible of Space Platform Engineering. Since 2019 he has been employed by the Italian Ministry of Defence firstly as a Cyber Security Engineer and then as Head of Cyberspace Operations at the Joint Command for Cyberspace Operations. He has obtained the GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH) and the Certified Red Team Expert (CRTE) certifications and joined the GIAC Advisory Board. Giovanni Pecoraro is currently working for RHEA Group as Cyber Security Manager in the Security Cyber Center of Excellence (SCCoE) project of the European Space Agency (ESA).