Program
14:00 – 14:05 WELCOME from the host
Miguel Costa, Director of the Department of Physics and Astronomy (DFA), FCUP
14:05 – 14:15 PORTUGUESE SPACE LANDSCAPE
Joan Alabart, Industrial Relations and Projects Officer, Portugal Space Agency
14:15 – 14:45 NEWSPACE ECONOMY
Justin Karl, Chief Engineer at Firehawk Aerospace, previous roles at NASA, University of Central Florida and International Space University (ISU)
14:45 – 15:15 ONGOING RESEARCH at FCUP
Orfeu Bertolami, The AEROS Project and other adventures in space, Professor, DFA, FCUP
André Pereira, Innovative Wireless Power Devices Using micro-Thermoelectric Generators arrays towards cubesat, Professor, DFA, FCUP
15:15 – 15:30 BREAK / NETWORKING
15:30 – 16:30 HOW CAN STUDENTS & RESEARCHERS GET INVOLVED
Joost Vanreusel, Practical Education in Technology Research and Innovation, head of the ESA Academy
Gonçalo Torrinha and Alice Pais de Castro, Space Generation Advisory Council, Portuguese National Points of Contact
Raphael Roettgen, Space Studies Program, ISU alumnus and lecturer & Founder E2MC
Justyna Redelkiewicz, Cassini hackathon, European Union Agency for the Space Programme
16:30 – 17:00 RoundTable – FUTURE OF ACADEMIC PROJECTS w/ QA from the audience
Pedro Jorge, Engineering Physics, Professor of Physics, FCUP
Tomás Moura, Bringing students closer to the scientific community, President PhysikUP
Rui Moura, Suborbital Astronaut, Professor of Geophysics, FCUP
Bruno Reynaud de Sousa, Space Law & Policy, Invited Professor of Public Law, FLUP