Name: Space Systems & HPC Engineering Consultant
Price: 800 EUR
Availability: InStock

Languages

Italian
Native or bilingual
English
Conversational

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Bologna (up to 50km)

INAF
Mechanical Engineer – Space Instrumentation /
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
June 2004 - June 2012 (8 years)
Bologna, Italy
• • Contributed to the design, simulation, testing, and integration of a subsystem for a space instrument within the Planck mission.
• • Performed mechanical design activities for a subsystem of a scientific space instrument
• • Conducted structural and vibration analyses to ensure compliance with launch and space environment requirements
• • Supported vibration testing campaigns, including test preparation, execution, and data analysis
• • Collaborated in multidisciplinary engineering teams to ensure system-level compatibility and verification
• • Participated in AIT/AIV activities (assembly, integration, testing and verification) of space hardware
• • Developed and supported HPC codes for cosmological parameter estimation and likelihood analysis
• • Contributed to high-performance scientific pipelines for large-scale data processing and model evaluation
• • Worked in multidisciplinary teams bridging space instrumentation and computational cosmology
• • Developed and supported HPC codes for cosmological parameter estimation and likelihood analysis
• • Contributed to high-performance scientific pipelines for large-scale data processing and model evaluation
• • Implemented distributed large-scale linear algebra workflows on HPC systems (MPI based, InfiniBand interconnect)
ESA / Euclid Mission
Mechanical Engineer – Thermal & Pointing Analysis /
October 2009 - October 2017 (8 years)
• • Contributed to thermal modeling and pointing performance analysis for the Euclid space telescope mission.
• • Developed and maintained thermal models of spacecraft/subsystem using FEM-based approaches
• • Performed thermal simulations to evaluate performance under mission environmental conditions
• • Contributed to the development of software tools for pointing analysis and stability assessment
• • Supported evaluation of pointing performance requirements and system-level constraints
• • Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to ensure consistency between thermal behavior and attitude/pointing performance
INAF OAS Bologna
Head of the Computing Center
January 2012 - January 2018 (6 years)
• • Administration and maintenance of the email infrastructure
• • Management of network services
• • Implementation of HPC clusters for astrophysics
• • Administration of parallel file systems