Antonio Moccia has been a Professor of Aerospace Systems since 1990 at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Naples Federico II, Italy. His research interests include mission analysis, design and data processing of aerospace high-resolution remote sensing systems, and dynamics, guidance, navigation and control of aerospace systems. Since 1975, he has obtained grants and contracts from private and public industries and institutions, has been a member of national and international committees and working groups, and Principal or Co-Investigator of several national and international research programs. He is the author or co-author of over 300 scientific papers in his research fields.

Antonio Moccia is present in the top 2% of the carrier-long ranking of authors of scientific articles with the highest impact in the international literature for the Aerospace & Aeronautics sector, the ranking published annually by Stanford University and PLOS starting from 2021.

He was President of Study Courses and Coordinator of Doctoral Programs in the area of ​​Aerospace Engineering, Director of the Department of Industrial Engineering and President of the Polytechnic and Basic Sciences School, always at Federico II.

As for his most recent roles, in 2019-2023 he was Scientific Coordinator of the Aerotech Academy, a joint project between Leonardo S.p.A. and the University of Naples Federico II for advanced, post-graduate and interdisciplinary training in aerospace engineering; since 2020 he has been coordinator of the Mission Advisory Group of the PLATINO-1 mission of the Italian Space Agency; he was coordinator of the Aerospace Sector of the Commission of Experts appointed by the Ministry of University and Research for the National Research Plan 2021-2027.

Since 2024 Antonio Moccia has been Professor Emeritus of Aerospace Systems at the University of Naples Federico II.