Luciano Iess is Principal Investigator of the gravity and radio science experiments of the ESA missions BepiColombo to Mercury and JUICE to the Jovian moons. He led the Gravity Discipline Group in the Cassini mission and is a science team member in the Juno mission. He has a long time experience in deep space tracking systems and planetary geodesy. He has taught thousands of students and is committed to the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the civil society.