Francesco Fusco, male, took his graduation cum laude in Physics in 1988. He worked as system engineer at the IBM Telecommunication Development Center for about one year. Since the end of 1989, he has been working for the Italian Aerospace Research Center (CIRA) and in 1993 he became responsible of the “Data Acquisition System” unit where he was involved in the design and integration of the Measurement & Data Acquisition Systems of all the CIRA large facilities: Plasma Wind Tunnel, Icing Wind Tunnel, crash test facility for aeronautical structures, Transonic Wind Tunnel. For two years he has been responsible of the “System Engineering and Integration” unit whose mission was the design, manufacturing and integration of electronic and mechanical equipments to support in-flight and on-ground experimental tests for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and Unmanned Space Vehicle (USV) programs. From the beginning of 2011 up to the end of 2014 he was responsible of the “Electronic Systems & Instrumentation” unit coordinating three subunits: “Embedded systems & communications”, “Payload sensors & HMI” and “Meteo systems and instrumentation”. From the beginning of 2015 to the late 2019 he worked as responsible of the “Electronics and Communications” unit. From the end of 2019 he has been working as responsible of the “Integration of large demonstrators and prototyping” unit. From July 2022 he has been working as Project Manager of a project for the design and construction of new laboratories