Dr. Fantino holds a degree in Astronomy and earned her Ph.D. in Space Sciences and Space Technologies from the University of Padua, Italy. Her career spans both industry and academia, with expertise in astrodynamics and celestial mechanics, space mission analysis, space geodesy, and astrometry. She has actively contributed to numerous research and development initiatives led by the Italian Space Agency and the European Space Agency. The main focus of her research is the design of trajectories for deep space missions leveraging the dynamical structures of the three-body problem and low-thrust propulsion.