Summary
Mattia Giurato is a Specialist AOCS & GNC Engineer with 11 years of experience blending academic research and hands-on aerospace systems development. He holds MSc and PhD-level training from Politecnico di Milano and has led research on model identification, robust and nonlinear control for UAVs, transitioning those methods into deployable flight systems. As co-founder of ANT-X he built an indoor multi-agent flight lab used for research and education, underscoring his focus on practical, repeatable experimentation. His career spans academia (postdoc and research fellowships) and industry, now applied to space-oriented AOCS/GNC work at D-Orbit. Beyond controllers and estimators, he has a track record in system identification, real-time estimator implementation, and integrating optical tracking with flight control hardware. Colleagues describe him as a methodical engineer who turns rigorous control theory into reliable flight-capable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Electric Vehicles: the bigger picture, Electric Vehicles: the bigger picture at KU Leuven
Physics of Extreme Systems, Physics of Extreme Systems at Czech Technical University in Prague
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aerospace Engineering, Summa cum Laude, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aerospace Engineering, Summa cum Laude at Politecnico di Milano
Italian, English