Jakob Huesing is systems engineer and team leader at ESA’s Concurrent Design Facility (CDF) and the Clean Space initiative in ESTEC, The Netherlands. He studied mechanical and space engineering and Chinese language and culture studies at Dresden University of Technology, Vienna University of Technology, and Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. After joining the European Space Agency as a German trainee on a scholarship from the German Aerospace Center (DLR), he stayed at the CDF as systems engineer and joined the Clean Space initiative. He has been involved in several design studies for future space missions in the CDF and within Clean Space he is responsible for several activities on life cycle assessment and eco-design and supports the e.deorbit space debris removal mission as a systems engineer.