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 60^th International Astronautical Congress in Daejeon, Korea (October 10 – 16, 2009), 61^st IAC in Prague, Czech Republic (September 26 – October 1, 2010), 62^nd IAC in Cape Town, South Africa (October 3 -7, 2011), 63^th IAC in Naples, Italy (October 1-5, 2012), 64^th IAC in Beijing, China (September 23-27, 2013), 65^th IAC in Toronto, Canada (September 29 – October 3, 2014), 66^th IAC in Jerusalem, Israel (October 12-16, 2015), 67^th IAC in Guadalajara, Mexico (September 26-30, 2016), 68^th IAC in Adelaide, Australia (September 25-29, 2017), 69^th IAC in Bremen, Germany (October 1 – 5, 2018), 70^th IAC in Washington, USA, (October 21-25, 2019) and 71^st 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 7^th International Workshop on Satellite Constellations and Formation Flying (IWSCFF), Lisbon, Portugal, March 13-15, 2013.

Member of the Program Committee of the 8^th IWSCFF, Delft, the Netherlands, June 2015.

IAF Co-Chair of the 9^th IWSCFF, Boudler, Colorado, June 19-21, 2017.

Member of the Program Committee of the 10^th 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 1^st DyCoSS, Porto, March 19-21, 2012

2014 Co-Chair of the 2^nd DyCoSS, Roma, March 26-28, 2014.

2017 Co-Chair of the 3^rd DyCoSS, Moscow, May 29-June 2, 2017.

2018 Co-Chair of the 4^th 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 4^th (December 4-7, 2017) and 5^th (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, 1^st Edition: Brasilia, Brazil, December 2014; 2^nd Edition: Florianopolis, Brazil, February-March 2016; 3^rd 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.