International Asteroid Day Webinar 2025
Meet Our Speakers
Dr. Marco Fenucci
ESA NEO Coordination Centre/Deimos Italia;
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.
Prof. Dr. Josep M. Trigo Rodriguez
Institute of Space Sciences (CSIC/IEEC);
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.
MDPI is excited to announce a special webinar in celebration of International Asteroid Day on 30 June 2025. International Asteroid Day aims to raise public awareness about the asteroid impact hazard and to inform the public about the crisis communication actions to be taken at the global level in case of a credible near-Earth object threat.
The theme of the webinar Exploring Near-Earth Objects: Challenges and Opportunities. We are very much looking forward to seeing you at the MDPI Asteroid Day Webinar 2025. Please find below an up-to-date outline of the presenters.
Date: 30 June 2025
Time: 11:00 am CEST
Webinar ID: 821 8607 0803
Webinar Secretariat
journal.webinar@mdpi.com
The webinar was hosted via Zoom and required registration to attend. The full recording can be found below. In order to learn about future webinars, you can sign up to our newsletter by clicking “Subscribe” at the top of the page.
Geosciences
Guest Editors: Dr. Paola Manzari and Dr. Maria Pedone
Submission deadline: 30 September 2025
Aerospace
Guest Editors: Dr. Marta Ceccaroni and Dr. Marco Fenucci
Submission deadline: 31 October 2025
Universe
Detection and Tracking of Near-Earth Asteroids
Guest Editor: Dr. Haibin Zhao
Submission deadline: 27 February 2026
The Hidden Stories of Small Planetary Bodies
Guest Editors: Dr. Emese Forgacs-Dajka and Dr. Csaba Kiss
Submission deadline: 28 February 2026