José Barbosa, Ph.D, has long experience in ESA projects, having participated and led several activities  and studies in the past 11 years. Since January 2012 José Barbosa has been residing in Switzerland, in the Zürich area, working as an independent professional consulting in the area of Aerospace Engineering. In December 2014 he founded the company Research and Development in Aerospace GmbH. 

José was at DEIMOS Engenharia between May 2004 and December 2011, in the Ground Segment Systems Division. While he was Head of the Data Processing Division at DEIMOS, he also lead the project management team and the commercial activities of the Division for two years and was awarded several contracts by ESA for the GMES mission (Sentinel 1 and 3), PARIS mission, SAT-AIS for EMSA/ESA and scientific studies. Since January 2012 he had been ensuring the smooth continuation of all contracts he is managing for DEIMOS Engenharia, working as a an independent professional - these have now transitioned as contracts with RDA GmbH.

He worked in all project phases of the L1 processor prototype for the SMOS mission: design and implementation, maintenance and support, and scientific studies and he is currently responsible for the SMOS L1 Operational Processor maintenance and evolution. 

He was also the Project Manager for the design, implementation and validation of a full E2E Synthetic Aperture Interferometer Simulator, supporting all possible mission types and instrument geometries (including fully configurable electronic paths and a complete Radiative Transfer Model). 

He was awarded an ESA contract to design a Reference Architecture for Space Science Missions, together with DEIMOS UK, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, and its continuation, to merge the contract conclusions with a parallel contract performed by GMV Aerospace and Defence S.A.U..  

With RDA GmbH he has been active in Ionospheric Modelling to estimate GNSS signal disturbances (SCIONAV and CLIM-IONO projects in collaboration with UPC and ONERA) but his main focus have been End-to-End simulators and Data Processors, having been involved in the following projects for ESA and EUMETSAT:

• Member of the Ground & Flight team for the LGR-RS E2ES contract, providing expertise in algorithms and architecture definition, having designed the architecture for the E2E performance simulator demonstrator, using the SS-E2ES Reference Architecture.
• Member of the MWI/ICI and MWS IDS/GPP team for the METOP-SG mission, providing expertise in algorithms and architecture design. 
• Member of the SCA PDAP (Payload Data Acquisition and Processing) team for the METOP-SG mission, providing expertise in algorithms and architecture design.
• Member of the OPSI (Observation Performance Simulator) team for the CIMR mission, providing expertise in algorithms and architecture design. The OPSI is a Phase A/B1 End-to-End simulator. 

Between 1998 and 2002 he was a CERN Doctoral Student and designed and implemented simulation and reconstruction code for the High Momentum Particle Identification Detector of the ALICE experiment. He received his PhD title with the dissertation entitled “Design and implementation of the offline software for a RICH detector in Heavy Ion Physics” in 2004.

He has teaching experience, at university level, on the subjects of Introductory Physics, Electromagnetism and Circuit Theory.

He has also professional experience in Telecommunications, having been part of the team that implemented the first version of the on-chip control software supporting a multicast protocol (IGMP) for the Siemens HiX 5300 equipment, an urban DSL access concentrator, while working at Siemens Portugal.