Andrea Longobardo is a Contract Researcher at National Institute of Astrophysics (Italy). He has been deeply involved in planetary mission on minor bodies as Associated Scientist of VIR/Dawn, VIRTIS/Rosetta and GIADA/Rosetta instrument. He was Task Leader in the H2020 EURO-CARES project, dedicated to developing a roadmap for a European Sample Curation Facility. He participated to the ESA mission study MarcoPolo-R (sample return from asteroid) as Deputy PI of the VISTA instrument. He convened the Sample Return sessions at European Planetary Science Congress in 2017 and 2018.