Research Unplugged @CMU Portugal – Alexandre Ferreira da Silva

Alexandre Ferreira da Silva is a Professor in the Department of Industrial Electronics at the University of Minho and currently serves as the National Co-Director of the MIT Portugal Program. Under the CMU Portugal Program, he served as the Principal Investigator for the 2022 exploratory research project “PROMETHEUS“. This initiative led to the development of Prometheus-1, a Rubik’s Cube-sized satellite launched to space in January 2025. The satellite was built at the University of Minho in collaboration with Instituto Superior Técnico and Carnegie Mellon University.

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Start date

Apr. 29, 2026

5:00 pm

End Date

Apr. 29, 2026

5:17 pm

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