Tatiana Quercia@tatiana01

Tatiana Quercia, born in Rome (Italy), graduated in 2015 with a Master’s degree in Space and Astronautical Engineering from Sapienza University of Rome. After almost 5 years working as production supervisor for the brands Alfa Romeo, Ferrero Rocher, Kinder and CELINE, she took a sabbatical to attend post-graduate education. In 2019 she completed the “CORe: Credential of Readiness” programme of Harvard Business School Online. In 2021 she earned a post-graduate Master in Satellite Systems and Services from Sapienza University of Rome. Since then, she has worked in Project Management in the Aerospace industry for customers like the European Space Agency and Airbus. In 2022 she won the second prize at the German round of the 4th CASSINI Hackathon: Space for the Financial World️. In 2025 she won the Flashmoss challenge of the Spring Institute for Forests on the Moon's Space Hackathon and she earned the Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI). She has publications at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Acta Astronautica and SpaceFlight.

Background Image: Saturn's rings in the ultraviolet. Detail of an image taken during the Cassini-Huygens mission. ©ESA Credits: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute.