IEEE ARGENCON 2020

Martin España is a: BS in Electronics from UNLP (Arg), a MSc from Univ. of Chile, a Dr. Engineer from National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble (Fr) and Post. Doc. from Queens University (Can). He has been Professor at the Faculty of Eng. of UBA (Arg), at the Inst. of Technol. of BA (Arg), at the Inst. Balseiro (Arg), at the Inst. of Eng. of UNAM (Méx), at the Div. of Postgr. Studies in Eng. of UNAM (Méx) and at the Cinvestav (Méx). He was nominated as Researcher of the following national agencies: CONICET (Arg), Secretaría de Educación de México, CNRS (Fr) (Maître de Recherche Invité), the National Research Council (USA), NASA-Dryden Flight Research Center (USA). He also worked as Scientific Advisor of the Secretaría de Ciencia y Tecnología (Arg). Since 1997, is a Senior Researcher of Argentina’s National Space Agency (CONAE), where he conducted numerous projects under agreement with several Argentinean Scientific Entities, in the field of Guidance, Navigation and Control of space vehicles. He is author of more than 100 publications in books, articles and congress proceedings in areas related with identification, controls and navigation.

Walkiria Schulz is an Astronomer from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Master and Ph.D. in Space Engineering and Technology from the National Institute of Space Research (INPE) of Brazil. She has a Specialization in Theory and Practice of Scientific Dissemination from the University of São Paulo (USP, Brazil). She is currently an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences – School of Aeronautical Engineering – of the UNC and intervenes in the chairs: Gas Dynamics I, Gas Dynamics II, Space Systems, Aerospace Vehicle Dynamics (post -graduate) and Aerospace Vehicle Simulators (postgraduate). She is the Director of the Master of Science in Engineering – Aerospace Mention (UNC-IUA). She is Director of the Consolidate project “Resilience in Aerospace Missions: Development of numerical tools for their improvement” of the SECyT-UNC. It operates in Orbital Dynamics of Satellites: trajectories, orbits and maneuvers; Atmospheric reentry and maneuvers within the atmosphere. It has been a pioneer in Argentina in the study of space junk dynamics. In her professional career she has been part of the satellite control group at the Empresa Brasileira de Telecomunicações (EMBRATEL), the Instituto de Aeronáutica e Espaço (IAE, Brazil), the Deutschen Zentrum für Luft und Raumfahrt (German Center for Aerospace Research – DLR) , the National Commission for Space Activities (CONAE, Argentina), the Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research, of the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences of the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU, USA). In 2006 she was awarded the Wagner Session Award in Orbital Dynamics and Control modality conferred by the Judging Commission of the XIII Colóquio Brasileiro de Dinâmica Orbital in recognition of her notorious scientific-technological contributions

Juan A. Fraire (IEEE Member) is an assistant researcher at the National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET) and an associate professor at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC, FAMAF), Saarland University in Germany and guest professor at Politecnico di Torino in Italy. His research focuses on spaceborne networking and distributed applications enabled by state-of-the-art informatics techniques. Juan is the founder and chair of the annual Space-Terrestrial Internetworking Workshop (STINT) since 2014, has co-authored more than 45 papers published in international journals and leading conferences, and has imprinted a novel networking vision in his “Delay-Tolerant Satellite Network” book. Juan participates in joint projects with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the Argentinian Space Agency (CONAE) and collaborates with world-renowned space companies and start-ups such as Skyloom (USA), GomSpace (Denmark), D3TN (Germany), and Orbitare (Switzerland).

Juan A. Fraire (IEEE Member) is an assistant researcher at the National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET) and an associate professor at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC, FAMAF), Saarland University in Germany and guest professor at Politecnico di Torino in Italy. His research focuses on spaceborne networking and distributed applications enabled by state-of-the-art informatics techniques. Juan is the founder and chair of the annual Space-Terrestrial Internetworking Workshop (STINT) since 2014, has co-authored more than 45 papers published in international journals and leading conferences, and has imprinted a novel networking vision in his “Delay-Tolerant Satellite Network” book. Juan participates in joint projects with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the Argentinian Space Agency (CONAE) and collaborates with world-renowned space companies and start-ups such as Skyloom (USA), GomSpace (Denmark), D3TN (Germany), and Orbitare (Switzerland).

Ing. Josefina Peres

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