Stefania Soldini is a lecturer in Aerospace Engineering in the Department of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Liverpool, U.K. She is a member of three asteroid missions (ESA’s HERA, NASA’s DART and JAXA’s Hayabusa2). She gained her doctorate at the University of Southampton on solar sail mission design in 2016. Her expertise lies in the field of numerical simulations for spacecraft mission design and guidance, navigation & control, asteroid, solar sail missions and additive manufacturing.