Alessandra Capurro

Experience

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  High school

  Sept 2016 - Sept 2019

  Private tutor

  I gave private lessons to High School students in mathematics, physics, general science and English.

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  EPFL Spacecraft Team

  Jan 2019 - Jan 2020

  Head Of Communications

  EPFL Spacecraft Team is a student association. The first mission on which the team is working is CHESS, a constellation of Cubesats that aims at performing in-orbit measurements of Earth's atmosphere. As head of communication, I managed the advertising of the team and the mission internally in EPFL, for example, organized student recruitings. I started and created content for the social media pages, as well as worked on the website platform.

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  EPFelles

  Sept 2019 - Jan 2020

  Head Of Communications

  EPFelles is a student association that aims in welcoming and supporting women at EPFL.

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  EPFL

  Jan 2020 - Jan 2020

  Translator

  Part-time translator from French to Italian at the Service de la Promotion des sciences at EPFL. I translated the workshops of the "Coding Club", a program designed to encourage young girls from all over Switzerland to study informatics.

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  ESpace - EPFL Space Center

  Feb 2020 - Jan 2022

  eSpace has been selected as the organization taking over and putting in place the Space Sustainability Rating (SSR), a system that will evaluate the grade of sustainability of a space mission, which has been developed in the last two years by a consortium of organizations including WEF, ESA and MIT. The objective of the SSR is to push forward sustainability in the space sector and reward operators whose missions comply with the sustainability norms and guidelines.My roles working on the SSR span from the communication to the business development. Weniger anzeigen Teaching Assistant for the master's class "How to design for value for space applications".This course introduces a three-step methodology to support the iterative and incremental definition, exploration and evaluation of BM alternatives and system architectures. The proposed methodology is composed of three steps:1. ValSearch: How to do market research for Business Model design2. ValUse: How to elicit values and design value propositions3. ValXplore: How to explore desirability, feasibility, and viability of value propositions under uncertainty Weniger anzeigen I worked as a system engineer for the first mission of student association EPFL Spacecraft Team, called CHESS. CHESS is a Cubesat constellation that will perform in-orbit demonstration of a miniaturized time of flight mass spectrometer (CubesatTOF) developed in UniBern, and a dual-frequency GNSS developed in ETH. As a system engineer, I helped in the design during phases A and B. I introduced a model-based system engineering MBSE methodology by adopting the software Valispace to better manage the documentation. Weniger anzeigen

  • Space sustainability intern

    Jan 2021 - Jan 2022

  • Teaching Assistant

    Feb 2021 - Jun 2021

  • Model Based System Engineer - CHESS mission

    Feb 2020 - Feb 2021
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  House of Beautiful Business

  Jan 2021 - Jan 2021

  Speaker

  I was invited as a speaker at the in-person gathering of the House of Beautiful Business in 2021 named "Concrete Love". At this 3-days event, I had the chance of presenting the topic of space sustainability and space debris and what are concrete actions we can take to tackle the issue.

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  Coactum

  Aug 2021 - Jan 2021

  System engineering intern

  By providing simple, secure and fast in-space transportation services, Coactum aims to revolutionize cargo transportation in space, allowing fast access to orbits which are otherwise expensive and slow to reach.Joining the startup at an early stage of development, my work as a system engineer covered multiple aspects, from technical to managerial.

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  European Southern Observatory

  Feb 2022 - Aug 2022

  Sustainability engineer

  The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is the pre-eminent intergovernmental science and technology organisation in astronomy. It carries out an ambitious programme focused on the design, construction and operation of powerful ground-based observing facilities for astronomy, in order to enable important scientific discoveries. ESO also plays a leading role in promoting and organising cooperation in astronomical research.I am part of the project Sustainability@ESO with the objectives of:1) perform a carbon audit for the years 2018, 2019, and 20202) develop a project management tool to allocate carbon emissions to each element of a project 3) propose an approach for a carbon budget in line with best practices and the specific needs of ESO Weniger anzeigen

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  Beyond Gravity

  Nov 2022 - Jan 2024

  Manufacturing Engineer
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  Hitachi Energy

  Apr 2024 - now

  Power+ Graduate Trainee