Antonio Gurciullo

Antonio Gurciullo has worked in the space electric propulsion industry since 2013. Antonio began their career as an MSc Student at KTH | Kungliga Tekniska högskolan in 2013, followed by a Master Thesis Student at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Università degli Studi di Bari in 2015. In 2016, they were a Teaching Assistant at the University of Surrey and in 2018, they were a Visiting Research Student at Stanford University. In 2018, they joined Exotrail as Vice President of Propulsion and held roles such as Thruster Head module owner, space electric propulsion, Research Group Leader, and Plasma Physics Research Engineer. In 2019, they joined ORACLE joint laboratory as Operations Manager.

Antonio Gurciullo's education history includes a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Electric/Plasma Propulsion from the University of Surrey from 2015 to 2018. Antonio also attended SETsquared-R2I and the Enterprise Summer School in 2016 for Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies. In 2015, they attended the 52nd Culham Plasma Physics Summer School for Plasma Physics. From 2013 to 2015, they obtained a Master's degree in Electrophysics from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Antonio also attended the ESA/FFG Post-Alpbach Week in 2014 for Space mission design and the Alpbach Summer School for Space systems. Finally, from 2010 to 2013, they obtained a Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino. In addition, Antonio holds four certifications from edX in Project Management, including International Project Management (PM9003x), Best Practices for Project Management Success (PM9002x), Project Management Life Cycle (PM9001x), and an edX Honor Code Certificate for Introduction to Statistics: Descriptive Statistics.