Carlo Zanoni is a Senior Engineer at the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), where he is the Project Engineer for the Gravitational Reference System of the LISA mission, the first gravitational wave observatory in space and a large-class mission approved for launch in 2035. For INFN, he is also an external reviewer of the VIRGO experiment. He has worked for several years as Opto-Mechanical Engineer at the European Southern Observatory (Germany), developing astronomical instruments for the Extremely Large Telescope, and as a Senior Fellow in the CERN design office (Switzerland), coordinating novel superconducting systems for the upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider. He holds a PhD in Mechanical Systems and has been a visiting researcher at Stanford University (USA) and a trainee at Airbus Space (Germany).