Dr. Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas, 34 years

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Academic experience

• Post-doctoral researcher at Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA) (December, 2012 – July, 2013)
  Research Project: Fault Detection in Distributed Sensors Networks with Communication Delays.
• Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering from Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA) (2012)
  Thesis: Distributed Estimation of Aided INS errors.
• B.Sc. in Control and Automation Engineering from University of Brasília (UnB) (2008).
  I was honored with the best student award by the Faculty of Technology and the Rector of University of Brasília.

Professional experience

• Space System Engineer and Researcher with the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) (July, 2013 – present)
  Responsibilities include: space mission analysis; specification of attitude and orbit control subsystem (AOCS); design of strategies and procedures for satellite attitude and orbit control; mathematical modeling of AOCS sensors and actuators; dynamic modeling of satellite attitude and orbit; development of analysis and simulation software for satellite trajectory and attitude; perform functional and performance testing of AOCS sensors and actuators; pointing, power, and fuel balancing; and estimation of satellite lifetime.
• Application Engineer at Johnson Controls’ Building Efficiency division (July, 2008 – January, 2009).
  Biggest achievement: I actively participated in the drafting of the winning technical proposal for the Local Area Network of New Quito’s International Airport.
• Intern at Johnson Controls’ Building Efficiency division (July, 2007 – July, 2008).

Additional information

• Operational systems: openSUSE Linux, macOS.
• Programming languages: C/C++, Matlab, bash, Julia.