Lucana Santos

LUCANA SANTOS received the telecommunication engineering degree from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in 2008, and the Ph.D. degree from the Integrated System Design Division, IUMA, in 2014. She was a Visiting Researcher with the European Space Research and Technology Centre, The Netherlands. She has participated actively in industrial projects in the field of hardware architectures for hyperspectral and multispectral image compression on GPUs and FPGAs for Thales Alenia Space España and the European Space Agency. Since 2018, she has been with the Data Systems and Microelectronics Division at the European Space Agency. She is currently a member of the CCSDS Multispectral/Hyperspectral Data Compression working group. She has co-authored several scientific papers and has been a Reviewer of major international journals in her research areas. Her current research interests include hardware architectures for on-board data processing, reconfigurable architectures, and hardware/software co-design methodologies.