Role
Cost Engineer at the European Space Agency (ESA).
Bio
Elisabetta Lamboglia earned her degrees in Aerospace Engineering (2003) and Astronautical Engineering with honors (2006) from Sapienza University of Rome, specializing in space engineering and completing an internship at ESA's ESTEC center. She then worked at NASA Ames Research Center and returned to ESA (European Space Agency) in 2010 as a cost engineer in the TEC Directorate. She subsequently earned a master's degree in international relations from the London School of Economics (2015) and a PhD in Geoinformation Engineering from the University of Rome Tor Vergata (2025).
Since 2017, she has coordinated ESA's cost engineering team for the Copernicus program and Earth observation missions, establishing herself as a leader in cost engineering and programmatic assessment of satellites such as PRISMA for the Italian Space Agency. Between 2022 and 2023, she served as ESA's Climate and Sustainability Leader, leading the Sustainability Strategy, the Arrhenius Study, and collaborations with European institutions on Green Deal actions.
She currently leads projects focused on the use of artificial intelligence for geo-information and the development of the space economy . Author of numerous international publications and winner of the ESA Teamwork Excellence (2019) and Best Mentor (2023) awards, she has been a mentor in the STEM Talent Girl program since 2021.