Gianluca De Zanet

Gianluca De Zanet

PhD Student

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Spacecraft Mechanical Engineer

  • Education

    • Sapienza Università di Roma

      2012 - 2015
      BSc in Aerospace Engineering 105/110

      Activities and Societies: S5Lab, the team realized and tested a CubeSat with University’s equipment. Course main features: • Space systems Engineering: along with the course, I was one of the team that realized and tested a CubeSat with University’s equipment, through the S5Lab, that occupied the team for a semester. The final thesis, written in English, was about Vibration Testing of the URSA MAIOR Nano-satellite.• Orbital Mechanics • Missions Engineering• Materials Science and Technology• Astrodynamics • Space Constructions • Space PropulsionAmong… Show more Course main features: • Space systems Engineering: along with the course, I was one of the team that realized and tested a CubeSat with University’s equipment, through the S5Lab, that occupied the team for a semester. The final thesis, written in English, was about Vibration Testing of the URSA MAIOR Nano-satellite.• Orbital Mechanics • Missions Engineering• Materials Science and Technology• Astrodynamics • Space Constructions • Space PropulsionAmong those, an important study field was Mathematical Analysis or Calculus Show less

    • Sapienza Università di Roma

      2015 - 2018
      MSc in Space and Astronautical Engineering 110/110

      The Master’s Degree in Space and Astronautical Engineering provides a further and more specifically study following the three year Aerospace Engineering course.The main features of the full-time, 2 year(s) course are as follows:• Advanced Space Propulsion• Advanced Orbit Determination• Gas-dynamics • GA, GeneticAlgorithm – PSO, ParticleSwarmOptimization – DE, DifferentialEvolution

    • Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

      2017 - 2017
      Exchange Student Master Universitario en Sistemas Espaciales

      Exchange student during the spring semester

  • Experience

    • University of Surrey

      Oct 2018 - Feb 2023
      PhD Student

      Researching flexible carbon fibre deployable structures for space applications, witha focus on developing and testing support structures for optical payloads. Investigatinginnovative manufacturing methods and cost-effective approaches for compositematerials, alongside thorough thermo-structural numerical analyses. Conductingtest campaigns involving thermo-mechanical material characterization and interferometricexperiments in simulated thermal conditions.

    • Surrey Space Centre

      Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
      Research Fellow

      Contributed to an ESA-funded project collaborating with Surrey Satellite TechnologyLimited (SSTL) and the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM).Designed, procured, assembled, and tested a complex hexapod platform for a highperformancemicro-vibrations isolation system.

    • Coactum

      Mar 2023 - Jan 2024
      Mechanical Engineer

      Designing and developing a thrust vector control mechanism for an orbital transfervehicle, collaborating with a multidisciplinary team of engineers to integrate themechanism into the overall propulsion system.

    • Almatech SA

      Feb 2024 - now
      Mechanical Engineer
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • IELTS 7.5

      Cambridge Assessment English
    • DELE B1

      Instituto Cervantes
    • PET

      Cambridge English Language Assessment