Francesco Marconcini is a Ph.D. student in “Smart Industry” at University of Pisa. Here he graduated in 2021 in Space Engineering, with a thesis on the “Design of a 20 kW Magnetically Shielded Nested Hall Thruster”. Francesco’s PhD focuses on the application of additive manufacturing techniques to the design of electric thrusters, and he applied them also to improve the design of the aforementioned 20 kW Hall thruster. This thruster was successfully tested in 2024 making it the first of this kind in Europe, and one of the few high-power and high-performing thrusters in the world.