Nuno Catarino

Nuno Catarino, PhD, is the Head of PDGS Division in the Ground Segment Systems Business Unit at DEIMOS Engenharia. As Head of Division, Nuno is responsible for coordination of operational projects team, project control and Business Development. Under his leadership, the PDGS division has significantly increased activity in the past years, currently accounting for about a fourth of the total company revenue. Within PDGS and the broader Space Systems and Earth Observation fields, Nuno’s activities range from the development of remote sensing systems, data processing, cloud-based big data handling and service creation systems for Earth Observation, and the development of intelligent process management tools, among others. Within these new activities, much of the focus has been devoted to exploring the development of new services and products, in particular for Remote Sensing of the Oceans and Coastal regions. Nuno has lead several large (i.e >2M€) international consortia in software and hardware development for the the European Space Agency and Earth Observation markets, involving industrial, institutional and academic partners. He has a first degree in Physics from the major Engineering school in Portugal (IST), and a PhD in Applied Mathematics from one of the UK top schools (Univ. Warwick), and has supervised several MSc students in recent years in activities related to Remote Sensing.