EXPERIENCE

- January 2011 – Today:

SPACECRAFT CONTROLLER at EUMETSAT for SERCO Services GmbH: End-to-End operations for the Meteosat GEO satellites and the related ground stations.

- September 2009 – February 2010:

Collaboration (not formally employed at Politecnico di Milano) with the master-thesis Supervisor, working on the same subject of the master-thesis. The method used and the results obtained have been described in a technical paper (see ‘Publication’).

EDUCATION

- March 2006 – July 2009:

MASTER of SCIENCE in SPACE ENGINEERING at Politecnico di Milano, MILAN – ITALY. Thesis written in English, duration: 10 months, title: “Ballistic capture in the elliptic restricted three-body problem with applications to low-thrust interplanetary transfers” (field: Mission Analysis, Orbital Mechanics; programming language: Matlab).

Average mark: 25/30, Final mark: 101/110.

- October 2006 - September 2007:

ERASMUS exchange students programme at Technische Universität München (TUM), MUNICH – GERMANY. Attended courses and passed examinations (all in German language): 9. Subjects of the courses: different aspects of space missions and study of their subsystems.

- March 2006:

BACHELOR in AEROSPACE ENGINEERING at Politecnico di Milano, MILAN – ITALY. Subject of thesis: Preliminary analysis of configuration and structure of the micro-satellite ORIS (Ocean Remote Infrared Sensor).

Average mark: 28/30, Bachelor mark: 108/110.

- September 1996 – July 2001:

Secondary School (specializing in scientific subjects) “Liceo Scientifico P.Mazzone” (Roccella Ionica, RC – ITALY). School Leaving Certificate mark: 100/100.

TRAINING COURSES

- September 2009:

Participation to the Second Astronet Training School, hosted by Paderborn University, Paderborn, GERMANY. Conferences held by US and European Professors/Researchers focused on Dynamical Systems, Optimal Control methods in Space Mission Design and non-classical Astrodynamics;

- March 2006:

ATHENS exchange students programme, attending the intensive course (given in english) “Parallel Numerical Simulation” at Technische Universität München (TUM), MUNICH – GERMANY;

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

- March 2010:

State Exam (‘Esame di Stato’) compulsory for the registration to the Italian National Professional Order of Engineers.

LANGUAGES

ENGLISH : writing skills: Good, verbal skills: Good; Global: B2 - C1; TOEFL iBT, February 2010, score: 92 on 120;

FRENCH : writing skills: Basic, verbal skills: Good; Global: B2 - C1;

GERMAN : writing skills: Basic, verbal skills: Good; Global: B2; TestDaF, July 2007, average score: 3.5 on 5;

ITALIAN : Mother tongue.

COMPUTER SKILLS

OPERATIVE SYSTEMS : LINUX, WINDOWS;

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES : C++, MATLAB, learning FORTRAN on own initiative;

TEXT ELABORATION AND SPREADSHEET : LATEX, Microsoft Word, OpenOffice Writer, Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice Calc;

3D-MODELLING AND SIMULATION : CATIA V5, Solid Works, STK, Matlab-Simulink.

PUBLICATION and CONFERENCES

Hyeraci N., Topputo F., "Ballistic Capture in the Elliptic Restricted Three-Body problem with Application", work presented at the conference New Trends in Astrodynamics and Application VI, New York, 6-8 June 2011. 

Hyeraci N., Topputo F., "Method to Design Ballistic Capure in the Elliptic Restricted Three-Body Problem“, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, vol. 33, no. 6, November - December 2010, pp. 1814 - 1823 (DOI: 10.2514/1.49263).

OTHER ACTIVITIES

- March 2008 – February 2009: Tutorship supporting students with their studies and bureaucracy in a dedicated office within the university Politecnico di Milano.

- September 2007 – July 2009: active member of the European association Erasmus Student Network (ESN), section Politecnico di Milano: help-desk for foreign students, organizations of group trips and excursions.

- January – June 2005: Librarian at the Aerospace Engineering Department Library, Politecnico di Milano.

PERSONAL INTERESTS AND HOBBIES

Reading, soccer, jogging, snowboard, music.