Niccolò Michelotti is a PhD Student at the DART Lab within the ERC project EXTREMA. He holds a B.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering from Università di Padova and a M.Sc. in Space Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, during which he also attended the Alta Scuola Politecnica, an excellence program focused on innovation, design and multidisciplinary projects. His research interests are focused on autonomous guidance with indirect and direct optimization methods, nonlinear astrodynamics and autonomous CubeSats in Deep-Space.