Miguel Nunes

Miguel Nunes is an Assistant Researcher at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP) and Deputy Director of the Hawaii Space Flight Laboratory (HSFL). He received his Aerospace Engineering Degree from the Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal, and his Ph.D. at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa in 2016. During his Ph.D. research, Miguel developed a Multi-Agent Robotic System and GNC algorithms for distributed space missions. He worked as the Systems Engineer and Assistant Project Manager for the Neutron-1 mission. His current work is focused on small satellite mission development with applications to space science instrumentation, such as the NASA HyTI mission, where he serves as the Systems Engineer and Deputy PI. Miguel is also a co-inventor of the COSMOS software framework (https://github.com/hsfl/cosmos/) an open-source flight software and toolchain for satellite operations and control.