Martina is the System Engineer of the IRIS programme of the Telecommunications and Integrated Applications Directorate (TIA) at the European Space Agency (ESA). Since 2018, she is responsible for all the system aspects concerning Iris project implementation, targeting the development of a satellite-based communication system for Air Traffic Management (ATM) and the design of its long-term evolution. She is involved in several European and Global aviation standardisation groups within EUROCAE and ICAO, contributing to define the future technologies for Aeronautical mobile-satellite services.
Martina received her M.S. degree, summa cum laude, in telecommunication engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 2008. Before joining ESA, she worked at M.B.I. s.r.l., a telecommunication company in Pisa, as a communication system engineer.
She joined ESA in 2010 in the Communication systems and techniques section of the RF Payload system division, Technology, Engineering and Quality Directorate. She has been responsible of many R&D ARTES projects related to high throughput satellite systems, successfully developing technologies to improve Satellite Communications. She has also actively contributed to several standardization technical groups including DVB-S2X and DVB-RCS2. Since 2020 she co-directs the 5-days ESA-Oxford course “Satellite Communications and Navigation: Technologies, Markets and Applications”.