João Marafuz Gaspar is a Master’s student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, specializing in Control, Robotics, and AI, with a Minor in Space Sciences and Technologies. He is currently completing a Master’s thesis and serving as a teaching assistant. His research focuses on the development of algorithmic and systems-theoretic methods for collision avoidance in space traffic management and autonomous spacecraft operations and on decentralized estimation for dynamical multi-agent systems, with applications to LEO satellite formations. His academic and research background includes astrodynamics, estimation and control theory, convex optimization, signal processing, machine learning, and autonomous systems.