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Stefania Soldini

Dr Stefania Soldini
BEng MEng PhD

Senior Lecturer (Assoc. Prof.) in Space Engineering
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Part of
School of Engineering
Faculty of Science and Engineering

Contact

Stefania.Soldini@liverpool.ac.uk

My research blog on small celestial bodies and deep space mission operations

Professional Activities

Conference Roles

  • Invited Conference Session Co-Chair (online, 2022)
  • 32nd International Symposium on Space Technology and Science (Fukui, Japan, 2019)
  • 29th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting (Maui, HI, 2019)
  • 26th International Symposium on Space Flight Dynamics (Matsuyama, Japan, 2017)

Grant Application Assessments

  • Internal Pre-submission (University of Liverpool Peer Review College, 2022 - present)
  • External Post-submission (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2021)
  • External Pre-submission (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2020)

Internal Administrative or Committee Roles

  • Academic Staff Mentor (School / Institute, 2022 - present)
  • Recruitment Interview Panel (Department, 2022 - present)
  • School of Engineering’s Away Day, Group Topic (School / Institute, 2021)
  • University’s Subject film for Aerospace Degree, Interviewee (School / Institute, 2021)
  • STFC’s North-West Space Cluster, Member of the University of Liverpool’s Steering Group (University, 2021 - present)
  • Athena SWAN Self-Assessment Team (Department, 2019 - present)

Media Appearances

  • Virgin Galactic’s first tourism flight, BBC TV live News interview (Invited, August 2023)
  • Interview for Film on NASA's DART mission, CGTN Razor Technology Show (September 2022)
  • Interview on NASA's DART Mission, BBC Radio Kent (September 2022)
  • Radio Interview on DART mission, BBC Radio Merseyside (September 2022)
  • Liverpool engineer part of £300m historic NASA asteroid experiment, Liverpool Echo (September 2022)
  • University engineer part of NASA’s “mind-blowing” experiment to redirect an asteroid, University of Liverpool News (Invited, September 2022)
  • Can we really deflect an asteroid by crashing into it? Nobody knows, but we are excited to try, The Conversations (Invited, September 2022)
  • Institute of Space and Astronautical Science Interview, Twitter (July 2022)
  • Il Messaggero, News (December 2020)
  • BBC Science in Action, Radio (December 2020)
  • BBC Radio 4, Radio (December 2020)
  • BBC, News (November 2020)
  • The Independent, News (November 2020)
  • News, Askanews (Invited, November 2020)
  • The Conversations, News (November 2020)
  • The Manufacturer, Magazine (October 2020)
  • Interview BBC Radio for the “Science in Action”, BBC World Radio (Invited, November 2019)
  • Interview Radio Beckwith, Radio (Invited, September 2019)
  • Japan Blasted A Hole In An Asteroid. Now Its Going To Try And Land There, Forbes (Invited, July 2019)
  • Il Messaggero Italian Newspaper, Nespaper (Invited, June 2019)
  • Women in Science Day, Askanews (Invited, February 2019)
  • Radio Beckwith Interview, Radio (Invited, January 2019)
  • Italian National Institute of Astrophysics, online news (Invited, January 2019)
  • Politecnico of Milan Alumni, Online alumni megazine (Invited, October 2018)
  • Corriere della Sera Newspaper Interview: Stefania Soldini, scientist in kimono: I work with the "cosmic diamond" at 280 million km from Earth, Corriere Della Sera Italian Newspaper (Invited, February 2019)
  • Announcement of the successful Hayabusa2’s Conjunction Mission operation (https://twitter.com/haya2e_jaxa/status/1078894026839838720), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Hayabusa2’s twitter account (December 2018)
  • Science in Action” program on Hayabusa2’s Minerva rovers (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3cswmpz), BBC World Radio (Invited, September 2018)