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Vincent Van Dongen
Senior Manager, Business
Development Security Services
Wavre, Belgium
Vincent Van Dongen joined RHEA Group in
October as a Senior Manager of Business
Development Security Services. His main
role will be to identify and secure new
business opportunities in cybersecurity.
Vincent holds more than 25 years of
experience in IT, mainly working in payment
services and security. Vincent holds an
engineering degree and a PhD degree in
computer science from the University of
Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium.
Carlo Zelli
Senior PDGS Engineer
Frascati, Italy
Carlo Zelli joined RHEA Group in
September as a senior project manager
for Earth Observation projects. He has
over 25 years’ experience in conducing
space related projects. His technical
expertise ranges from design of microwave
instrumentation, radars and radiometers for
earth observation and deep space missions
to payload data ground segments,
processing, and CalVal facilities design.
Carlo holds a master’s degree cum laude in
electronics engineering.
Sakis Kotisis
Diegem, Belgium Hernán Tiraboschi
EPS SG System Interfaces Engineer
Darmstadt, Germany
Sakis Kotisis joined RHEA Group in
August as a senior software developer to
support the development of the European
Ground Systems–Common Core (EGS-
CC) project. Over the past three years,
he worked as a chief technology officer
for SciGen Technologies Inc., a Greek
company providing software solutions
for the international conference industry.
Sakis graduated with a degree in computer
science from the Univerisity of Patras,
Greece. Hernán Tiraboschi joined RHEA in August
as an interface engineer for EUMETSAT´s
EPS-SG project. Before joining RHEA
Group, he worked as developer, analyst, and
project leader for several software projects
until 2007, when he joined the Argentinean
Space Agency as a ground segment system
engineer. There, he coordinated the ground
segment development and integration for the
Aquarius/SAC-D project. Hernán graduated
with a degree in computer science from the
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Domenico Schiavulli
Image Navigation and Registration
Engineer
Darmstadt, Germany Stefano Lagrasta
Galileo Ground Segment
Operations Support
Prague, Czech Republic
Domenico Schiavulli joined RHEA Group
in October as an image navigation and
registration engineer. Before joining RHEA
Group, Domenico worked as sensing
researcher at Observatoire Midi Pyrenees in
Toulouse, France. Prior to that, he worked
as space engineer at Starlab in Barcelona,
Spain. Domenico graduated with a degree
in telecommunication engineering from
Politecnico of Turin, Italy, in 2009. He holds
a PhD in space radar remote sensing from
the University Parthenope of Napoles, Italy. Stefano Lagrasta joined RHEA Group in
August as Galileo ground segment operations
support. He supports Galileo performance
assessment and operations at the European
GNSS Agency (GSA). He has worked in the
space industry for 22 years. Before joining
RHEA Group, he worked as designer and
developer of the satellite Attitude, as well
as for different orbit control systems, flight
dynamics systems, and navigation-related
systems. Stefano holds a master’s of science
degree in electronics engineering.
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