Eduardo Bezerra is a Researcher and Lecturer of Computer Engineering at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), where he is with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering since 2010. He was formerly with the Faculty of Informatics, Catholic University (PUCRS), Brazil, from 1996 to 2010. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Sussex (Space Science Centre), England, UK, in 2002. From 2016 to 2017, he took a sabbatical leave to develop research activities at the Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier (LIRMM), Université de Montpellier, France. He is the author and co-author of papers published covering a broad range of scientific topics within the disciplines of Computer Engineering. His research interests are in the areas of embedded systems for space applications, Cubesats, computer architecture, reconfigurable systems (FPGAs), software hardware testing, fault tolerance and microprocessor architectures. In 2003 he started the Embedded Systems Group (GSE) at PUCRS. In 2004 he set up a company named Innalogics at TecnoPUC Technological Park. Innalogicsis a spin-off of GSE aiming the improvement of industry-university collaboration in the field of embedded systems for space applications. At UFSC, he started the Space Technology Research Laboratory (SpaceLab), having led and managed since then several research projects funded by Brazilian Government Agencies and also by the industry. At the moment, at SpaceLab, there are several ongoing space missions, including: FloripaSat, GOLDS-UFSC, and the Catarina Constellation. Aldebaran-I from UFMA is another space mission using the FloripaSat satellite. The team at SpaceLab works also on a payload for the European Space Agency to be used in the GOMX-5 mission.
