Giuseppe Sarri holds a Masters Degree in Nuclear Engineering from Politecnico di Torino (I). From 1983 to 1989 he worked at the Microtecnica SpA on several aircraft projects.
He joined the European Space Agency in 1989 in the Human Space Flight Directorate (Columbus programme). In 1994 he moved to the Science Directorate.
He has been the Payload Manager of Integral (the high energy observatory), the Study Manager of Eddington (the planet finding mission, now called Plato) and he was involved in the development of Planck (the cosmic background observatory). He was the Project Manager of Gaia (the ESA’s cornerstone mission for mapping more than one billion stars of our galaxy).
After the launch of Gaia in 2013 he was appointed Project Manager of JUICE, the first European mission to Jupiter and its icy moons which was launched in April 2023 and is now flying toward the Jovian system. Giuseppe Sarri is now retired.
