Bio
Marco Fenucci got his PhD at the University of Pisa in 2020, with a thesis on variational methods and Hamiltonian theory applied to the N-body problem. After, he was a Marie-Curie Early Stage Researcher at the University of Belgrade for the Stardust-Reloaded project funded by the European Commission H2020 Programme. For this project, his main research was focused on modelling the population of small near-Earth asteroids (NEAs). In 2022, he was co-investigator of the D-NEAs project, funded by the Planetary Society STEP grant. The main research topic of this project was about physical characterization of small NEAs with ground-based observations. Currently, he works at the NEO Coordination Centre of the European Space Agency as an orbital dynamicist. His main duties are the orbit determination of NEAs, and the computation of their impact probabilities with the Earth.

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"Sample return missions to asteroids as the key to implement effective deflection techniques"

Bio
Prof. Trigo-Rodriguez leads laboratory and remote sensing studies on the structure of asteroids and comets, the study of their fragments in space (meteoroids), and as surviving rocks arrived to the Earth's surface (meteorites). The study of meteorites and returned materials provide complementary ways to gain insight on the compositional, reflective, mechanical and physical properties of these challenging bodies.