In a nutshell: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loris-franchi/
WORK EXPERIENCE
03/06/2019 – CURRENT – Redu , Belgium
Systems and Test Engineer
European Space Agency through Redu Space Services
Contractor for ESA (through Redu Space Services), providing engineering and management support to the educational CubeSat activities of the ESA academy programme.
Tasks per area:
Assistance with Concurrent engineering activities executed @ ESA academy Training and Learning Facility
Test Engineer @ ESA academy CubeSat Support Facility
Responsible for the organisation, preparation and conduction of environmental test campaigns;
Operation of Thermal Vacuum Chamber and Air-cooled Electrodynamic Shaker;
Procurement and management of daily operations activities.
Systems Engineer @ ESA academy “Fly Your Satellite!” programme
Review of Engineering Data Packages and other technical & project- related documentation;
Day-to-day systems engineering support;
Participation in review board and review panel meetings;
Supporting daily project management activities;
Preparation of reports, articles, presentations, procedures and other technical documentation;
Day by day interface between the CubeSat project teams and the ESA experts.
08/05/2017 – CURRENT – Torino, Italy
Co- Founder
AIKO S.R.L.
Business cases, initial logistics and programmatic
Development and submission of ESA ITT proposals.
Knowledge and AI engineer focusing on Expert Systems and autonomous scheduling algorithms.
Development of expert system and on-line scheduler tailored for space operations.
Embedded coding with python for Raspberry PI3.
Participation to board of directors meetings Ref: http://www.aikospace.com/
15/11/2018 – 31/05/2019
Junior Research Fellow and Teaching assistant
Politecnico di Torino
Research topic: intelligent evolution of space mission design
Systems Engineer and Mission analyst at Politecnico di Torino Concurrent Engineering Facility for the ESA SROC mission study (phase 0/A)
Participation to ESA reviews
Mission analysis with AGI System Tool kit and NASA GMAT
Derivation of project requirements
Trade off analysis
Management of small team of students (14) and execution of concurrent engineering design sessions.
Road mapping for further technology and methodology enhancement according to ESA roadmap (e.g. Multidisciplinary optimization, multi-criteria decision making)
eaching Assistant and development of the "Space missions and Systems design" class
Supporting the organisation and execution of activities of Politecnico di Torino CubeSat Team
Torino, Italy
01/05/2017 – 23/12/2017
Mission analyst @ ESA SysNOVA LUCE Project Politecnico di Torino, European Space Agency Mission analyst for the MoonCARE mission concept.
Development of ESA ITT proposals and assistance in project planning.
Execution of stakeholder needs analysis and participation to ESA negotiation meetings.
Derivation of requirements in line with ECSS standards (ECSS-E- ST-10C Rev.1).
Trade offs and analysis of mission architecture with AGI System Tool Kit & Mathworks Matlab.
Assistance in the development of CubeSat system budgets and System design with application of Model Based Systems Engineering Methodologies.
Participation to ESA reviews and interfaces with project partners. Mission objectives: Smallsat for Lunar Radiation measurement and its biological effects.
Ref: http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2017/05/MoonCARE
Research fellow on AOCS subsystem @ CADET and FLAP projects
Politecnico di Torino - Regione Piemonte
Activities were carried out in collaboration with a network of Regione Piemonte space companies. Founded by a post graduated scholarship by Politecnico di Torino within the CADET(CApture and DEorbiting Technologies) and FLAP (Future Launch Avionics Programme) projects.
Tasks:
Study and simulation in Matlab and Simulink environment for GNC algorithms applied at passive space debris rendezvous and docking phases (CADET) and launch vehicle system (FLAP).
Embedded implementation of control and guidance algorithms in dedicated Hardware (Pandaboard), coded in C language.
Hardware in the loop simulations with closed loop simulations models.
Participation to reviews and development of project data package.
Torino, Italy
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
29/10/2015 – 31/10/2019 – Torino, Italy
PhD Space Systems Engineering and Concurrent Design Cum Laude
Politecnico di Torino
AGILE Concurrent Design approach applied in space mission design: Analysis of the application of Concurrent Design within academia. Research on methods and methodologies to enhance concurrent design approach. Developer and systems engineer of Politecnico di Torino Concurrent Engineering Facility. (ref: http:// dottorato.polito.it/aer/en/students#225619)
evelopment of Multi criteria decision making methodology applied to space missions phase 0, early A study. (namely, multi stakeholder negotiation space exploration)
Teaching Assistant of "Space missions and Systems design" class (https://didattica.polito.it/portal/pls/portal/ gap.pkg_guide.viewGap? p_cod_ins=01PEVMT&p_a_acc=2022&p_header=S&p_lang=EN)
Teaching Assistant of Space exploration and development systems Master ( https://didattica.polito.it/master/seeds/2019/ introduction)
Team Leader of Polito CubeSat team (https://www.cubesatteam- polito.com/)
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