Davide Celestini is an R&D Guidance, Navigation & Control engineer with 11 years of experience bridging aerospace research and industry, currently developing cutting-edge GNC solutions at ARGOTEC in Turin. He holds a PhD in Aerospace Robotics from Politecnico di Torino and augmented his research portfolio with a visiting stint at Stanford’s Autonomous Systems Lab, applying learning-based optimization to complex trajectory problems. His background spans space tug navigation, swarm UAV trajectory planning in collaboration with Leonardo, and hands-on flight mechanics leadership on historical seaplane restoration projects, showing both academic rigor and practical systems instincts. Davide combines a curiosity-driven mindset with multidisciplinary collaboration, rapidly turning research advances into flight-ready prototypes. A detail that sets him apart is his mix of high-level optimal guidance methods and real-world mass/balance and dynamic flight analysis experience, enabling end-to-end contributions from theory to hardware.
11 years of coding experience
Diploma, Scientifico, 100 L, Diploma, Scientifico, 100 L at Liceo scientifico Filippo Juvarra
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aerospace Engineering, Cum laude, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aerospace Engineering, Cum laude at Politecnico di Torino
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