Matteo Bordignon graduated from Politecnico di Milano with a Master’s Degree in Automation and Control Engineering in September 2023. His thesis “On the estimation of the absolute wind vector in AWE systems” was developed during an three-month internship period at Kitemill, Norway, where he worked as a Control Engineer. He is currently pursuing an Interdisciplinary PhD in Aerospace Engineering, in collaboration with the Information Technology Programme. As a researcher at the SAS-Lab, his work focuses on the Plant-Control Co-Design of Airborne Wind Energy systems.