Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez

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Dr. Trigo-Rodríguez obtained his degree in Physics for the University of Valencia in 1997, and his Ph.D. degree 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-USA grant that allowed him to continue his carrier in a postdoctoral position at the Institute of Geophysics & Planetary Physics of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) under the supervision of Prof. John Wasson, and Dr. Alan Rubin. After almost three years working on primitive meteorites (carbonaceous chondrites) he returned in 2006 to the Institute of Space Sciences (CSIC-IEEC) in Barcelona. On 2009 he won his position as Tenured Scientist (Científico Titular) of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) at that research institute where actually leads the Meteorites, Minor Bodies and Planetary Science Group. His current research focuses in the physico-chemical properties of meteorites and their links with other solar system minor bodies (comets and asteroids). He has been involved in Stardust (NASA) mission, and currently in the ongoing DART (NASA) and HERA (ESA) missions to explore binary asteroid Dydimos. He is particularly interested additional space missions for the future exploration and sample return of Moon, Mars and other Solar System minor bodies with astrobiological significance.

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