Assessment and Mitigation of Asteroid Impact Hazards

Barcelona Asteroid Day 2015: Revisiting the Threat by Asteroid and Comet Impact.- Dynamic Sources of Contemporary Hazard From Meteoroids and Small Asteroids.- The Chemistry of Solar System Materials: Sun, Planets, Asteroids, Meteorites and Dust.- Shape Models and Physical Properties of Asteroids.- Asteroid Mining: Mineral Resources in Undifferentiated Bodies From the Chemical Composition of Carbonaceous Chondrites.- Atomistic Simulations of Aqueous Alteration Processes of Mafic Silicates in Carbonaceous Chondrites.- Measuring the Terminal Heights of Bolides to Understand the Atmospheric Flight of Large Asteroidal Fragments.- Constraining the Pre-Atmospheric Parameters of Large Meteoroids: Kosice, A Case Study.- Detection of Nocturnal and Daylight Bolides From Ebre Observatory in the Framework of the SPMN Fireball Network.- Natural Hazard Associated to Shock Waves of Meter-Sized Meteoroids.- Chelyabinsk Meteorite As A Proxy for Studying the Properties of Potentially Hazardous Asteroidsand Impact Deflection Strategies.- Asteroids, Comets and Meteorite-Dropping Bolides Studied From the Montsec Astronomical Observatory.





 

Josep M. Trigo-Rodriguez started at Castelló Planetarium in 1990, and he spent thirteen years working in the development of programs and public outreach. The last four years, he has spent as associate professor at University Jaume I of Castelló, giving lectures on Thermodynamics and Physics. In the meantime, Dr. Trigo-Rodriguez obtained his degree in Physics from the University of Valencia in 1997, his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics (Astrophysics) in 2002 under the direction of Prof. Jordi Llorca (UPC) and Prof. Juan Fabregat (UV). In 2003 he obtained a Spanish grant that allowed him to continue his career in a postdoctoral position at the Institute of Geophysics & Planetary Physics of UCLA. After almost three years working on primitive meteorites he returned to Barcelona in 2006 with a JdC grant in order to join the Institute of Space Sciences (CSIC-IEEC). In 2009, he won his position as Tenured Scientist of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC) at that research institute.

Maria Gritsevich is a Senior Scientist at the Department of Physics, University of Helsinki (UH), currently working for the ERC Advanced project SAEMPL "Scattering and absorption of electromagnetic waves in particulate media" (PI Prof. Karri Muinonen). Prior to coming to UH, she was appointed as a Senior Scientist at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, at the Ural Federal University and at the Russian Academy of Sciences. She has also worked as a research fellow at the European Space Agency (ESA/ESTEC, with an international ESA fellowship granted to only one researcher a year), and as a Specialist Research Scientist at the Finnish Geospatial Research Institute. She obtained her M.Sc. degree (with high honors) at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of the Lomonosov Moscow State University (2007), where in the following two years she also completed her Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics. She gained crucial research experience by joining international collaborative