Sara Mugnaini received her M.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering and Ph.D from the University of Pisa, Italy.
During her academic years Dr Mugnaini main research activity concerned innovative antenna design, and she specialized further in antenna design for space applications during her industrial career, first at Airbus Defence and Space from 2009 to 2015, and then at Inmarsat. Dr Mugnaini joined OneWeb in October 2019 as a Principal Payload Engineer when she worked on strategic technology development projects with European Space Agency and she was leading the RF Advanced Technology roadmap for both Ground and Space segment. Sara Mugnaini is now Manager of Advance Engineering and Technologies at Eutelsat OneWeb, in the Technologies & Innovation Department.