Date: 29 September
Time: 5 p.m.
Venue: Room EA1, North Tower, Instituto Superior Técnico – Alameda

«In this seminar, organised by Rodrigo Ventura, a professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, and researcher at the Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR-Lisboa), two leading researchers from Canadian institutions will address Earth observation and space robotics.»

“Satellites for Earth’s Sustainability”
Prof. Su-Yin Tan | University of Waterloo
Full Professor and Director of the Applied Geomatics Research Laboratory at University of Waterloo, former Dean and Professor of Space Applications at the International Space University (ISU), and global faculty member specializing in GIS and Earth observation.

“Robotic Swarm for Space Debris Removal”
Prof. George Zhu | York University
Tier I York Research Chair in Space Technology, Director of the Space Engineering Design Laboratory, and Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, ASME, and EIC, specializing in space robotics, tether propulsion, and orbital dynamics.