Raffaele S. Donelli is a senior aerospace engineer and expert in aerodynamic stability, boundary-layer transition, and flow control. Since February 2025, he has been serving as an executive at Dream Innovation, where he leads the Technical Directorate and Business Development. In this role, he is responsible for strategic planning, research coordination, and innovation management across high-tech programmes in aerospace and advanced engineering. Before joining Dream Innovation, Dr. Donelli had a long and distinguished career at the Italian Aerospace Research Centre (CIRA), where he led the Instability, Transition and Flow Control research group within the Applied Aerodynamics Laboratory. His research focused on the development of advanced numerical models for the prediction of boundary-layer transition in three-dimensional compressible flows, applying linear stability theory, ray theory, and multiple-scale techniques. Dr. Donelli holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering from the University of Salerno, where he conducted research on the numerical modelling of boundary-layer transition phenomena (Stabilità di flussi in cavità Aperte) in non-compressible flows, with particular emphasis on the coupling of asymptotic analysis and ray-based propagation methods for instability waves. He has in-depth expertise in boundary-layer theory, especially regarding the onset and control of laminar-to-turbulent transition. His scientific background has been strongly influenced by a long-standing