Organisation of Scientific Events
Organization of international scientific meetings
Participated in organization of several international conferences, both in Space Sciences and in Engineering Education.
Events in Space Sciences
International Astronautical Congress
Member of the International Program Committee of the 60th International Astronautical Congress in Daejeon, Korea (October 10 – 16, 2009), 61st IAC in Prague, Czech Republic (September 26 – October 1, 2010), 62nd IAC in Cape Town, South Africa (October 3 -7, 2011), 63th IAC in Naples, Italy (October 1-5, 2012), 64th IAC in Beijing, China (September 23-27, 2013), 65th IAC in Toronto, Canada (September 29 – October 3, 2014), 66th IAC in Jerusalem, Israel (October 12-16, 2015), 67th IAC in Guadalajara, Mexico (September 26-30, 2016), 68th IAC in Adelaide, Australia (September 25-29, 2017), 69th IAC in Bremen, Germany (October 1 – 5, 2018), 70th IAC in Washington, USA, (October 21-25, 2019) and 71st IAC - Cyberspace Edition (October 12-14, 2020).
Vice-Chair of the Astrodynamics Symposium of IAC, 2014 - 2018.
Chair of the Astrodynamics Symposium of IAC, 2018 - 2021.
Events of the Astrodynamics Committee of IAF
Co-Chair and Co-President of Local Organizing Committee of the 7th International Workshop on Satellite Constellations and Formation Flying (IWSCFF), Lisbon, Portugal, March 13-15, 2013.
Member of the Program Committee of the 8th IWSCFF, Delft, the Netherlands, June 2015.
IAF Co-Chair of the 9th IWSCFF, Boudler, Colorado, June 19-21, 2017.
Member of the Program Committee of the 10th IWSCFF, Glasgow, UK, July 16-19, 2019.
IAA Events
Founder and Co-Chair of DyCoSS - IAA Conference on Dynamics and Control of Space Systems in cooperation with the American Astronautical Society (AAS)
2012 Co-Chair and Co-President of Local Organizing Committee of the 1st DyCoSS, Porto, March 19-21, 2012
2014 Co-Chair of the 2nd DyCoSS, Roma, March 26-28, 2014.
2017 Co-Chair of the 3rd DyCoSS, Moscow, May 29-June 2, 2017.
2018 Co-Chair of the 4th DyCoSS, College of Aerospace Engineering, National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), Changsha City, China, May 21-23, 2018.
Co-Chair of all 3 editions of the IAA-AAS SciTech Forum (2018, 2019, and 2020) held in Moscow, Russia, at the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia.
Member of the Program Committee of 4th (December 4-7, 2017) and 5th (January 28-31, 2020) Editions of the IAA Conference on University Satellite Missions and CubeSat Workshop, Roma, Italy.
Member of the Program Committee of all 4 editions of the IAA Latin America Cubesat Workshop, 1st Edition: Brasilia, Brazil, December 2014; 2nd Edition: Florianopolis, Brazil, February-March 2016; 3rd Edition: Ubatuba, Brazil, December 3-7, 2018; 4th Edition: Sao José dos Campos, Brazil, August 2020
Events in Engineering Education
International Workshops and Advanced Schools “Spaceflight Dynamics and Control”
2005-2018 Founder and coordinator of11 editions of the IWAS-SDC aimed at promotion of Astrodynamics research in Portugal.
Spaghetti Bridge Contest
2001-2008 Co-founder and Chair of the UBI Spaghetti Bridge Contest aimed at promotion of creative teaching/learning in STEM
2008-now Member of the Organizing Committee of the Contest.