Cecilia Marasini

After graduating in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Pisa in 2001 (with periods of study at Chalmers University in Gothenburg and Hewlett Packard), she began her career as a systems and software engineer at the Motorola Technology Center in Turin. She subsequently earned her PhD from TNO and the Technical University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands, working until 2009 as a researcher in TNO's Radar and Electronic Warfare group, specializing in electromagnetic computation and antenna design.

In 2010, he shifted his focus to space engineering , joining the RHEA Group to support the Human and Robotics Exploration Directorate of ESA (European Space Agency) in the Netherlands (ESTEC). As an Operations and Project Engineer, he focuses on operations engineering , contributing to the programmatic management of the USOCs network, the definition of operational concepts for European payloads on the ISS (International Space Station) , and the creation of the Science Data Archive. In 2019 and 2022, he represented ESA at the ISS Mission Management Center at NASA 's Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, and since 2021, he has defined the operational concepts for ESA's modules on the Gateway lunar orbiter.

In 2024, he decided to return to the industrial sector in the Dutch company ISISPACE specialized in the development of cubesats and nanosatellites as Programme Manager for an Earth observation space project (TANGO) within the framework of the Scout missions (ESA).

He currently holds the role of Business Developer at cosine Remote Sensing BV, a company specialized in the development of optical instruments for remote sensing.

Author of numerous international scientific publications in the fields of electromagnetism and aerospace operations, she is actively involved in disseminating and promoting STEM subjects in primary schools in Italy and the Netherlands to inspire younger generations. In 2019, she was awarded the RHEA Group Certificate of Excellence.