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Dr. Andrea Lani is a research/team manager at KU Leuven’s Center for Mathematical Plasma Astrophysics, an AIAA member, a co-author of 100+ scientific papers, and was previously a senior researcher at Von Karman Institute, and postdoc at NASA/Stanford CTR and NATO STO technical member. For 20+ years he has led the development of models/software to simulate hypersonic flows around spacecrafts and space weather as a co-designer of the COOLFluiD and ESA VSWMC platforms. He is the PI of MEESST, a large EU project (10 organizations) developing the first magnetic shielding demonstrator for space re-entry.