Luca Rinaldi received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electronic engineering from the Polytechnic of Bari, Bari, Italy, in 2016 and 2018, respectively. In 2018, he was with Thales Alenia Space France (Toulouse), for a eight-month internship, where he was involved on the evaluation of photonic integrated components applied to RF-on board processing. In 2022, he received his PhD on the mitigation of atmospheric turbulence effects on optical links by integrated photonics from the Paris-Saclay University, in collaboration with the French Aerospace Laboratory (ONERA) and the French Space Agency (CNES). He is currently a Senior Researcher at the CNIT (National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications) and the Photonic Networks and Technologies National Laboratory, part of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, Italy. His research interests include the design and characterisation of photonic integrated circuits for space and defence applications.