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Luigi Colangelo
Résumé
Per aspera sic itur ad astra
Place and date of
Foggia (Italy), April 6, 1988
birth
Nationality
Italian
Interests
Classic guitar Practise and concerts
Theatre Improvisation and drama courses and plays
Volunteering Hospitals and no-profit associations
Education and Training
2014–Present
PhD Candidate in Control and Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Torino –
European Space Agency (ESA-ESTEC) – Thales Alenia Space.
Research program entitled ‘Laser Metrology Spacecraft Formation for the Next Generation Gravity
Mission (NGGM)’ in partnership with Thales Alenia Space and the European Space Agency (ESA), in
the framework of the ESA-NPI (Network Partnership Initiative) joint PhD program. High selective
entry system: 3 accepted/financed students out of more than 50.
Jan 2014–Jul 2014
‘Talenti per l’impresa’ program (Talents for business), Fondazione CRT, Torino.
Graduate program providing young graduates and professionals a wide range of competences in
entrepreneurship, business and management. High selective entry system: 80 accepted/financed
students out of more than 800.
Sep 2010–Mar
2013
Master Degree in Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, 110/110 with firstclass honours.
Main course of study: space systems and technologies.
2010–2012
Alta Scuola Politecnica Diploma, Double Master Degree Politecnico di Torino and Politecnico di Milano, 110/110 with first-class honours.
Path of excellence studies carried out during the two-years of Master Degree. Characterizing activities:
summer and winter schools, original papers and intensive week-courses about multidisciplinary topics
(complex decisions making, intellectual property, management and design of innovation, creativity ).
High selective entry system: only 70 accepted/financed students; selected among the top 5% students
of all the Politecnico Master Courses.
Final multidisciplinary project submitted: ‘SSP - Switched Positive Dynamical System for Cloud
Computing Load Balancing’
2010–2011
Period of study abroad – Erasmus, Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace
(ISAE - ENSICA) - 65th Promotion, Toulouse.
Sep 2007–Jul 2010
Bachelor Degreee in Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, 110/110 with
first-class honours.
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 – 10129 Torino – Italy
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Experience
Vocational
Fall 2014
ESA S2UN Challenge Competition, ESA Business
Technology Transfer Programme Office (TTPO), Noordwijk.
Incubation
Centre
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Contest organized by the ESA-TTPO to give European students the opportunity to work with
ESA in the pursuit of non-space applications based on the Agency’s intellectual property portfolio.
Transferring these technologies to non-space systems can be of great benefit to students with
entrepreneurial potential in creating new business prospects and fostering entrepreneurial skills by
creating novel spin-off from competitive ESA technologies.
Main achievements:.
{ Second place
{ ESA Business Incubation Centre support to my team’s spin-off
{ Innovative patent (writing in progress) about ’PIER: Petroleum Innovative Enviromental Remediation’
Oct 2014–Dec
Early stage researcher (NPI-PhD), European Space Agency (ESA-ESTEC), Noordwijk.
2014 Control System Division (Technical and Quality Directorate)
Jun 2014
Fundraising, Fondazione CRT - ScuolaDiRomaFUND-RAISING.it, Torino.
Intensive training weekend about fundraising theory and practise
Jul 2014
Team building, Fondazione CRT, Torino.
Intensive training weekend about team building theory and practise
Apr 2013–Dec
2013
Research assistant in ‘space vehicles guidance, navigation and control’, Control and
Computer Engineering department – Politecnico di Torino.
Design, development and test of optimal systems for the NGGM space mission (European Space
Agency, launch expected in 2024).
Main focus: attitude and formation control system, during the scientific phase of the mission, as
well as the on-board propulsion system optimization and arrangement.
Sep 2012–Mar
Trainee, European Space Agency (ESA-ESTEC), Noordwijk.
2013 Science, Applications & Future Technologies Department (Earth Observation Programs Directorate)
Main achievements:.
{ High-fidelity numerical simulator for a multi-satellite Earth observation space mission
{ Control algorithms and interfaces definition for a multi-satellite Earth observation space mission
International conferences attended
2014
Selected speaker (after peer-review), 10th AIAA Pegasus conference (Prague).
2014
Selected speaker (after peer-review), 9th International ESA conference on Guidance,
Navigation and Control (Oporto).
2014
Selected speaker (after peer-review), SIDRA 2014: Convegno Annuale dei Docenti e
Ricercatori Italiani in Automatica (Bergamo).
Miscellaneous
2011–2012
Teaching assistant, Politecnico di Torino.
Mathematical analysis I and II and Geometry courses
2008–2012
Course responsible, ‘Collegio Einaudi’, Torino.
Basic course in Computer Science - Teacher and main organizer
Languages
Italian
English
French
German
Mother tongue
C1 Full professional proficiency
B2 Professional working proficiency
A1 Elementary proficiency
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 – 10129 Torino – Italy
H +39 335 8254563 • B [email protected]
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