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Dr. Josep Maria Trigo-Rodríguez, PhD
Astrophysicist, CSIC Tenured Scientist
ORCID #0000-0001-8417-702X, Web of Science Researcher ID: L-3870-2014
EDUCATION
Degree in Physics (1997), University of Valencia (Spain)
Ph.D. Cum Laude, Theoretical Physics, speciality Astrophysics (2002), University of Valencia.
METEORITES, MINOR BODIES AND PLANETARY SCIENCE GROUP LEADER, Institute of Space Sciences (CSIC-IEEC)
RESEARCH TEAM SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
Professor at the High-Energy Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology CSIC-IFAE-UAB and also in the Universidad Internacional de Valencia Masters
MAILING ADDRESS: Institute of Space Sciences (CSIC-IEEC),
Campus UAB, Carrer de Can Magrans, s/n, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallés (Barcelona), Catalonia, Spain.
E-mail: [email protected]
Telephone: 34 + 937379788, Ext: #933069
PARTICIPATION IN SPACE MISSIONS
NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission Investigation Team.
ESA HERA mission to Didymos system
Member of the Preliminary Examination Team (PET) of NASA Stardust mission
Member of the NASA Astrobiology Center at UCLA (IGPP) between 2003-2006.
This page was last updated Oct. 25th, 2023
ONGOING RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
Search of my publications by using the Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysical Data System (ADS)
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
OUTREACH PUBLICATIONS
PUBLISHED BOOKS & BOOK CHAPTERS
Meteorite and Sample Return Clean Laboratory at ICE (CSIC-IEEC)
Ph.D. Thesis
Unrefereed articles
Astronomical Pictures from Riells del Montseny Observatory (MPC B06)
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
Solar system formation environment: water, and aqueous alteration processes in asteroids, comets, and meteorites (chondrites)
Cosmochemistry: Formation conditions of primitive bodies: bulk composition, and mineralogy of asteroids and comets. Applications to In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU).
Primordial materials preserved in primitive meteorites: cometary clasts, presolar grains, CAIs, chondrules, radioactive nuclides, etc...
Celestial Mechanics and dynamics of meteoroid orbits. Search for parent bodies: NEOs, MBAs, and dormant comets.
Photometry and spectroscopy of asteroids, comets and meteorites. Chemical abundances of cometary and asteroidal meteoroids
Origin and evolution of Earth's atmosphere and biosphere: atmospheric chemistry
If you are interested in these topics, and you like to join our research team
"Meteorites, Minor Bodies and Planetary Science group at the Institute of Space Sciences, see here JOBS OPPORTUNITIES AT ICE-CSIC
currently available.
SUCCINT BIOGRAPHY
Josep M. Trigo-Rodriguez was born in Valencia (Spain) on July 3, 1970 into a family of artists.
He was the second, and last son of the famous painter
Julio Trigo CAMPOY married with Maria Gloria Rodriguez
Sánchez. Josep grew in an environment of great interest for the arts and sciences, and he was deeply marked by
Isaac Asimov, Josep Comas Sol�, Camille Flammarion, and Carl Sagan readings. In fact, together with his parents,
his eleven-years older brother
Xulio Ricardo Trigo , a brilliant poet and novelist, marked Josep's interest in literature, and science popularization.
After several years collaborating as science journalist, in 1990 Josep got a job in the Castelló Planetarium,
where he spent thirteen years working in the development of programs, and public outreach. Between 2000 and 2003 he also became Associated Professor of the University Jaume I, giving lectures on applied thermodynamics, laboratory techniques and Physics. In 1995 he met Prof. J. Oró who exerted in him a profound influence to continue his professional carrier, and keep learning on the origin of stars, planetary systems, meteorites and cosmochemistry. Finally, 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), and also wrote several books to popularize astronomy. In 2003 he obtained a MEC Spanish 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) where he was recommended by Joan Oró, working under the supervision of Prof. John Wasson, and Dr. Alan Rubin on Meteoritica. After almost three years working on primitive meteorites (carbonaceous chondrites) he returned in 2006 to Spain with a JdC grant in order to join the Institute of Space Sciences (ICE, 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. Since 2010 Dr. Trigo-Rodriguez is the leader of the
Meteorite, Minor Bodies and Planetary Sciences Group at ICE (CSIC-IEEC) . His current research focuses in the formation of primitive solar system minor bodies (comets and asteroids), the study of their fragments in space (dust, meteoroids) and the analysis and characterization of their surviving rocks arrived to the Earth (meteorites). These �minor bodies� provide clues on the origin of the solar system because were retentive of the protoplanetary disc components that retained clues on the chemical and isotopic conditions prevailing in the early Solar System, and forming the primeval planetary atmospheres.
PARTICIPATION IN SPACE MISSIONS
Dr. Trigo-Rodriguez forms part of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) NASA Mission that will achieve the first in-situ demonstration to deflect with a kinetic impactor the satellite of near-Earth asteroid (65803) Didymos.
Dr. Trigo-Rodriguez is one of the team members of Hera ESA mission , a mission selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) to perform a close-up investigation of the result of DART's impact: the sole object in the Solar System to have had its orbit shifted by humankind in a measurable way.
Dr. Trigo-Rodriguez formed part of the Preliminary Examination Team of the Stardust (NASA)
mission that collected and brought back to Earth the first solid materials from a solar system
object different to the Moon. The method used for collecting particles from the coma of comet 81P/Wild 2 is
nicely explained in the Stardust homepage
EDITORIAL AND REVIEW TASKS IN SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS
Chief Editor of Advances in Astronomy (Wiley).
Editorial Board Member of Nature Scientific Reports with participation as
Guest Editor in Special Volumes
Associate Editor of Wiley's journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science.
Associate Editor for Planetary Science and Astrobiology of Frontiers in Astronomy & Space Sciences. Also as Review Editor in the field of Astrobiology.
Associate Editor of the Springer's journal Astrophysics and Space Science.
Associate Editor of the MDPI journal Galaxies.
REVIEWER TASKS: Dr. Trigo-Rodríguez has been reviewer of the following peer-reviewed international journals:
Acta Astronautica, Advances in Space Research, Astronomical Journal, Astrophysical Journal, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Earth, Moon and Planets, Frontiers in Astronomy & Space Sciences, Galaxies, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Icarus, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Life, Meteoritics and Planetary Science, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Planetary & Space Science, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, NATURE, Nature Astronomy, Planetary and Space Science, Science, and Sensors. More details in my Publons profile.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Physico-chemical properties of hazardous asteroids and comets from remote observations and the laboratory study of their meteorites. Code: AYA PID2021-128062NB-I00, Plan Nacional I+D+I, Periodo: 2022-2024. (P.I. Dr. Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez and Jordi Ibáñez)
Physico-chemical properties of primordial asteroids
and comets from laboratory studies of Meteorites and Asteroid returned samples (PHYSMASTER). Code: AYA PGC2018-097374-B-I00, Plan Nacional I+D+I, Periodo: 2019-2022. (P.I. Dr. Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez)
Physical properties and reflectance of primitive chondrites: filling the gap between undifferentiated asteroids and comets. Code: AYA2015-67175-P, Plan Nacional I+D+I, 2016-2018. (P.I. Dr. Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez)
The astrophysical environment of solar system formation from the study of primitive materials
host in chondrites and comets. Code: AYA2011-26522, Plan Nacional I+D+I 2012-2014. (P.I. Dr. Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez)
Gamma ray astrophysics in the MeV range: a challenge for instrumentation and an essential window
for nuclear astrophysics. Code: AYA2008-01839, Plan Nacional I+D+I 2008-2011. (P.I. Dra. Margarida Hernanz)
Preparation of the Spanish Participation in the Gamma Ray Imager mission: Gamma astronomy of high precision.
Code: ESP2007-61593. Plan Nacional I+D+I 2007-2008. (P.I. Dra. Margarida Hernanz)
Scientific exploitation of BOOTES y BOOTES-IR. The discovery and study of the farest objects in the
Universe with robotic instruments in the near-IR. Programa Nacional de Astronomía y Astrofísica,
Plan Nacional de Investigación Científica, AYA 2004-01515. Duration: 2004-2007.
(PI: Dr. Alberto J. Castro Tirado )
The discovery and study of the farest objects in the Universe with robotic instruments in the near-IR.
Development of the Burst Observer and Optical Transient Exploring System in the near-Infrared (BOOTES-IR).
Programa Nacional de Astronomía y Astrofísica, Plan Nacional de Investigación Científica.
Duration: 2002-2004. (P.I. Dr. Alberto J. Castro Tirado)
He is also coordinating the scientific exploitation of the
Spanish Fireball Network
REVIEWER OF INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCILS
Member of the "Stars and Planets" Panel of the Time Allocation Committee (CAT), Instituto de Astrofísica de
Canarias (IAC). Assessment of Astronomy observing proposals to get observing time in IAC observatories.
NASA AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA). Referee evaluation of NASA's Cosmochemistry Program proposals.
United Kingdom Research Council. Assessment of Astronomy and Cosmochemistry funding applications.
National Research Council Canada. Assessment of Astronomy & Space Sciences funding applications.
The academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Assessment of Astronomy funding applications.
The Danish Council for Independent Research. Danish Agency for Science. Assessment of Astronomy funding applications.
MICINN. Plan Nacional, Spain.
Proyectos Junta de Andalucia, Spain. Assessment of Astronomy funding grants.
SCIENTIFIC AFFILIATIONS
PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH TEAMS
Stardust Preliminary Examination Team (NASA): study of 81P/Wild 2 particles, and interstellar particles
preserved in aerogel collectors on board the Stardust spacecraft
International Space Science Institute (ISSI) project: Interaction of large bolides with the Earth's atmosphere
Participation in Leonid MAC missions (NASA)
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
Xarxa Vives of Universities Best 2023 Science and Technology book for "La Terra en Perill"
Revista QUO and CSIC selected him as member of the: Selección Española de la Ciencia 2017
Asteroid 8325 Trigo-Rodriguez was named after him in 2008 to distinguish his research trajectory
RSEF-BBVA Foundation 2009 Prize to the best Physics article published on 2008:
"The Stardust mission: astrophysical
implications of the analyzed samples of comet 81P/Wild 2"
2005 Universitary Edition National Prize under the category
of best electronic edition for his book and DVD entitled:
"The solar system: our small corner in the Milky Way" (2004)
published by the Univ. Jaume I (in Spanish). Book in coauthory
with Dr. Jordi Llorca (inclosed DVD with J. Llorca, Jose V. Casado
and Pablo Biazzi).
III Scientific Award REAL SOCIEDAD ESPA�OLA DE FÍSICA
in the popularization of science section (2002). Honorary
mention for his work �The colossal death of Supernovas" for
the quality of the article and the author's trajectory in the field of
science's popularization. Paper published in MUNDO CIENTIFICO (Spanish
translation of La Recherche).
XIII Scientific Award �Casa de las Ciencias de La Coru�a� for
popularizing Science in Spain (2000). Special mention to his paper �A
control over pseudoscience� published in MUNDO CIENTIFICO (Spanish
translation of La Recherche) due to its originality.
OTHER TASKS PROMOTING ASTRONOMY
Member of the
International Astronomical Union (IAU) since 2005.
Member of Observing Time Allocation Commitee (CAT) for Canary Islands (2010-2012)
IAC telescopes (Stars and planets panel).
Member of the General Council of the
Liga Iberoamericana de Astronomia (LIADA) since December 2004.
Coordinator Meteor Section of the
Liga Iberoamericana de Astronomia (LIADA).
Founding member of the
International Meteor Organization (IMO) .
Founding member and President of the
Spanish Society of Meteor and Cometary Observers (SOMYCE) over the period 1988-1992.
Meteor Section Coordinator of the Valencia Astronomical Association (AVA)
over the period 1985-1993.
E-mail:Ph.D. Josep M. Trigo (CSIC-IEEC).
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