R. Leonardi

Dr. Rodrigo Leonardi joined the Brazilian Space Agency in 2017. He received his PhD in Astrophysics from the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research in 2006 and his BS degree in Mathematics from the University of Brasília in 1999. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Physics of the University of California at Santa Barbara, USA, from 2007 to 2009. He joined the European Space Agency in 2009 and worked as a scientist at ESTEC, in the Netherlands, and at ESAC in Spain. In 2015, Leonardi returned to Brazil and worked at CGEE, a think tank center for strategic studies in technology and innovation, where he conducted prospective studies for the Brazilian space sector. He has coauthored 160 papers in peer reviewed scientific journals. Nowadays, Leonardi is director of the Brazilian Space Agency,