Professor Camilla Colombo is an Associate Professor in Orbital Mechanics at Politecnico di Milano and the Principal Investigator of the COMPASS project. Before that, she was an Associate Professor and Lecturer in Spacecraft Engineering at the University of Southampton in the Astronautics Research Group till July 2016. Her research areas spaces among orbital dynamics, trajectory design and optimisation, dynamical system analysis and control, and space mission analysis and design. She is a delegate for the Inter-Agency Debris Coordination Committee and the UN-mandated Space Mission Planning Advisory Group for mission to asteroids. Her current research on orbital dynamics, space debris, and asteroids was driven by the participation to research projects funded by the European Space Agency on the disposal of spacecraft in Medium Earth Orbit, the study of the effect of a spacecraft fragmentation in Low Earth Orbit and Geostationary orbit and the design of novel strategies for disposing the spacecraft orbiting in Highly Elliptical Orbits or at Libration Point Orbits. A study on the motion in vicinity of asteroids and ways to manipulate their orbits was also funded by the European Space Agency in the framework of the General Study Program.