Our Experts / Mentors
The following professionals are making themselves available to reply to teams’ questions at fixed timeslots during the Hackthon.
Rimal Abeed, PhD student, Atmospheres, Environments, Space ObservationsLaboratory (LATMOS)
- Satellite data
- Climate change
- Agriculture
- Food security
- Ammonia
- Copernicus climate data store
- Intermediate Python and Matlab, data analysis and visualisation
Jim Casey, Chartered Engineer, Coastal Section, Oifig na nOibreacha Poibl / Office of Public Works, Republic of Ireland
- Civil, environmental, coastal, marine and river engineering
- Flood risk management data services
- Geographic information systems
- Coastal wave and water level modelling
- Coastal flood and erosion risk management
Elise Coutarel, Blackrock Castle Observatory, Cork Institute of Technology
- Space Engineering
- Earth Observation data
Piera Di Vito, Technical Officer, European Space Agency
- Downstream applications
- Business development
- Maritime and aviation
- Telecommunications
Robin Expert, Startup Ecosystem Manager, Sobloo / Airbus Defence and Space-Intelligence
- Engineering
- Startup scouting
- Open Innovation for value-added services based on intelligence assets
- Earth observation data
Mike Forde, Research and Development Liaison, National Space Centre
- Communication, policy and research for academic and technology innovation
- R&D for Upstream/Downstream Space technology and services
- Public Administration
- Development, use and governance of satellite technology
Alan Giltinan, Blackrock Castle Observatory, Cork Institute of Technology
- Computational and instrument physics
- Automated and precision instrument systems
- Optimised data analysis
- Data analysis software
- Computer science
- Photometry analysis
- Remote sensing
Bruce Hannah, National Space Centre
- Satellite Tech exploitation in Maritime and Land applications
- GNSS (Galileo, GPS, etc.) systems and downstream usage.
- EO data powered Decision Support & Situational Awareness applications
- Business Development
- International partner search
Stavri Nikolov, Founding Director, Digital Spaces Living Lab (DSLL)
- Image analysis and recognition
- AI and deep learning
- Building services and apps that use Galileo and Copernicus data
- Living Lab tests
- Business development
Niall Smith, B.Sc., Ph.D., MIAU, Head of Research / Head of Blackrock Castle Observatory, Cork Institute of Technology
- Astrophysics
- Photometry
- Charge-coupled devices
- DOAS
- Data anlysis
- Business development
- Computing models
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