Giuseppe Mandorlo is the Project Manager for the European Space Agency's (ESA) Vigil mission, Europe's first operational space weather satellite. In this role, he leads efforts to provide early warnings of solar events that could disrupt Earth's infrastructure. He started his career in ESA over 22 years ago as a Data Handling engineer in the Technology Development directorate before moving to Galileo as a payload engineer. Prior to his current role of Vigil Project Manager, Giuseppe was head of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 System, Engineering, and Operations section.