Dr Stefania Soldini BEng MEng PhD
Senior Lecturer (Assoc. Prof.) in Space Engineering Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Work email Stefania.Soldini@liverpool.ac.uk
- Personal WebsiteMy 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)