*Master degree in Physics at the University of Milan (Italy) - 1988 *Ph. D. in Mathematics at the University FUNDP of Namur (Belgium) - 1991
Profession
2023-current: Professor at Collège de France Chair:Planet formation: from Earth to exoplanets
1993-2023: Title: Researcher in Astronomy (permanent position) Institution: C.N.R.S. -- Conseil National de la Rescherche Scientifique Laboratory: Lagrange, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Nice, France.
Research Interests
Celestial Mechanics
Small Body dynamics
Solar System formation
Extrasolar Planets
Theory of Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems
Honors
*Young Scientist Scientific Award: European Geophysical Society, 1994. *Bronze medal: C.N.R.S., 1995 *ICARUS Editor's Letter of Commendation, 1996. *asteroid 5596 1991PQ10 named Morbidelli, 1996. *Urey prize of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the A.A.S., 2000. *Grand Prix Mergier-Bourdeix of the French Academy of Science, 2009 *Grand Prix Doyen Lepine de la Ville de Nice, 2014. *Elected Associate Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium, 2014. *Elected Associate Member of the French Academy of Sciences 2015.
* President of Solar System Working Group of CNES (2019-) * Co-editor of Icarus, for papers on dynamics (since Jan. 2000) * Associate editor of Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (since Jan. 2001) * Director of the French National Programme for Planetary Science (PNP) (2010-2018) * Correspondent member of Bureau des Longitudes * Deputy Director of Laboratoire Lagrange, Nice (2012-2015); Acting director (2015) * President of IAU commission 7 (2012-2015) * Co-editor of the book The Solar System Beyond Neptune (Univ. Arizona Press) * referee for Icarus, Celestial Mechanics, Astronomical Journal, Physica D, Astronomy and Astropysics, Planetary and Space Science, Meteoritics and Planetary Science, Science, Nature, Astrophysical Journal.... *external reviewer for the OSS and PGG programs of NASA, panels PE9 and PE10 of ERC *co-organizer of Session PS10 of the EGS Assembly (Nice, April 20, 1998). *member of the Scientific Organization Committee of: -US-European Celestial Mechanics Workshop (Poznan, Poland, July 2000) -Asteroid III book. -winter school of C.N.R.S. Chronology of Solar System formation (Les Houches, France, January 2001) -winter school of C.N.R.S. Chronology of Solar System formation II (Aussois, France, February 2004) -winter school of C.N.R.S. Chronology of Solar System formation IV (Les Houches, France, February 2009) -winter school of C.N.R.S. Chronology of Solar System formation V (Les Houches, France, February 2013)
-winter school of C.N.R.S. Chronology of Solar System formation VI
-Protostars and Planets V, (Hawaii, 2005) and VI (Heidelberg, 2013) - TNO meeting (Catania 2006) - 40th ESLAB symposium "Impact cratering in the Solar System" (ESTEC, May 2006) - IAU Symposium 236 "Near Earth Objects, our Celestial Neighbors: Opportunity and Risk" (Prague, 2006) - NOBEL symposium "Physics of Planetary Systems" (2007) - Planet-Z conference `Origin and Evolution of planets', Ascona (Italy), 2008. - Newton Institute Programme `Dynamics of Discs and Planets', Cambridge, Aug. 12 - Dec 18. 2009. - TNO 2010, Philadelphia, June 2010 - Extreme Solar Systems II, September 2011 - IAU symposium "Complex Planetary Systems", Namur (Belgium), 2014. - ISSI meeting "The Delivery of Water to Proto-planets, Planets and Satellites", 2016 * Co-organizer of the Programme `Dynamics of Discs and Planets' of Newton Institute, Cambridge (UK) (2009). * principal scientist for the phase-A study of the EUNEOS mission, an ESA mission for the discovery of Near Earth Asteroids. * chair of the Local Organizing Committee of the 2004 meeting of the Division on Dynamical Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society * member of the SOC of ASSNA(Action Specifique Simulations Numeriques en Astronomie) * member of the TAC of the CFH telescope (2004-2005) * member of the scientific council of the Marseille-Provence Observatory (2005-2007), of IMCCE and Cassiopee (since 2008) * president of the evaluation committee of IMCCE (2004), Luth (2017), Ipag (2020) * member of the evaluation committees of : Observatoire de Paris, LAOG (2005), LGL-TPL (2015), OSUG (2020) * member of CSA (Commission Specialisee en Astronomie)(2006, 2010-) * member of the Solar System Working Group of CNES (since 2006) * member of the Committee of the Division on Dynamical Astronomy of the AmericanAstronomical Society(2006-2007); chair of the Brouwer award selection committee (2007) * Member of the "Exo-Planet Roadmap Advisory Team" of ESA (2008-2009) * Member of the prize selection committee of the DPS (2009-2010) * Member of the visiting committee of the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at Caltech (2010) * Member of the visiting committee of Carnegie's Department for Terrestrial Magnetism (2015) * Member of the "Haut Conseil Scientifique" of Paris Observatory(2012-2014) * Member of the ANR committee CE31 (2016-) * Coordinator of the Center for Planetary Origin (C4PO)
Teaching and Advisor responsibilities
- Master lectures on Celestial Mechanics, University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis (1993-1997) - Master lectures on Planet Formation, University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis (2008-) - Cycle of lectures "Secular dyanimcs of the small bodies of the Solar System" (6h), Observatory of LaPlata (2000) - Cycle of lectures "Solar System Small Bodies" (5h), Observatory of Rio de Janeiro (2001) - Cycle of lectures "origin and evolution of planeetary systems" (4.5h) Como and Vilnus, 2016 - Cycle of lectures (3h) "Solar system formation and early evolution", ISSS Course on Planetary Interiors, September 2016 - Ph.D. advisor/co-advisor of:
F. Thomas (1994-1998; advisor)
U. Locatelli (1995-1999; co-advisor)
A. Crida (2003-2007; advisor)
J. Szulagyi (2013-2015; advisor)
B. Bolin (2014-2018; co-advisor)
G. Pichierri (2016-2019; advisor)
R. Ribeiro (2017-2018; visiting stage)
- Post Doc. advisor B. Gladman (1996-1997 and 1998-1999) D. Nesvorny (1998-1999 and 2000-2001) H. Morais (2000-2001) K. Tsiganis (2002-2004) D. O'brien (2005) R. Brasser (2008-2011) K. Walsh (2009-2010) S. Marchi (2010-2011) B. Bitsch (2011-2013) S. Jacobson (2013-2016) A. Izidoro da Costa (2013-2014) K. Pahlevan (2013-2015) M. Ogihara (2014-2016) M. Lambrechts (2015-2017) R. Deienno (2016)
X. Ramos(2018)
Invited lectures in international meetings
*Integrability and Chaotic behaviour (NATO ASI advanced research workshop), Torun, Poland, 1993; *SIAM meeting, Snowbird, Utah, 1995; *4th A. von Humboldt Colloquium, Ramsau, Austria, 1996; *Kuiper Belt Workshop, Toronto, Canada, 1996; *IAU colloquium No. 165, Poznan, Poland, 1996; *Asteroid Comets Meteors '96, Versailles, France, 1996; *Planetary Systems: the long view, 9th Blois international meeting, Blois, France, 1997; *Interactions between Planets and Small Bodies, Joint Discussion, IAU general assembly, Kyoto, Japan, 1997; *1st Rio de Janeiro international workshop on Planetary Sciences, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 1997; *The impact of modern dynamics in astronomy, IAU colloquium No. 172, Namur, Belgium, 1998; *Evolution and Source regions of Asteroids and Comets, IAU colloquium No. 173, Tatranska Lomnica, Slovak Republic, 1998; *Asteroid Comets Meteors '99, Ithaca, U.S.A., 1999; *DPS Meeting, Abano, Italy, 1999; *US-European Celestial Mechanics workshop, Poznan, Poland, 2000; *DPS Meeting, Pasadena, Ca, USA, 2000; *Sixth International Space Collaboration. A.I.A.A. workshop, Seville,Spain, 2001; *Asteroids 2001, Palermo, Italy, 2001; *Formation of Solar Systems, Gordon Conference, Connecticut, USA, 2001. *Fall meeting, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, USA, 2001. *EGS meeting, Nice, France, 2002 *EKB workshop (Antofagasta, Chile, 2003) *JENAM 2003, Budapest, Hungaria, 2003 *New geometry of Nature, Kazan, Russia, 2003 *KITP program "Planet Formation: Terrestrial and Extra-Solar", Santa Barbara, U.S.A., 2004 *Astrophysics of Planetary Systems, Harvard, USA, 2004 *COSPAR meeting, Paris, France, 2004 *IAU Colloquium 197 "Dynamics of populations of planetary systems", Belgrade, Serbia, 2004 *Saas-Fee Advanced Course on "Trans-Neptunian Objects and Comets", Wengen, Switzerland, 2005 *JENAM 2005, Liege, Belgium, 2005 *Protostars Planets V, Hawaii, 2005 *TNO meeting (Catania 2006) *40th ESLAB symposium "Impact cratering in the Solar System" (ESTEC, May 2006) *IAU Symposium 236 "Near Earth Objects, our Celestial Neighbors: Opportunity and Risk" (Prague, August, 2006) *Planetary Science: challenges and discoveries (Blois, 2006) *ESO workshop "Observing Planetary Systems" (Santiago, 2007) *Division of Dynamical Astronomy meeting (Ann Harbour, 2007) *Nobel Symposium "Physics of Planetary Systems", (Stockholm, 2007) *Goldschmidt conference, plenary session (Cologne, 2007) *Division of Planetary Science meeting (Orlando, 2007) *Workshop `Chronology of meteorites and the early Solar System', Kauai (2007) *ETH international conference "Origin and Evolution of Planets" (Ascona, 2008) *ESLAB symposium "Cosmic Cataclysm and Life" (ESRIN, 2008) *TIARA workshop on DIM KBOS (Taiwan, 2008) *LinFest conference (60th anniversary of D. Lin celebration), Prato, June 2009. *MetSoc Conference (Nancy, 2009) *IAU symposium "Icy bodies of the Solar System" (Rio de Janeiro, 2009) *IAU Symposium nr. 269 "Galileo's Medicean Moons: their Impact on 400 years of Discovery", Padova, January, 2010. *ESF Conference "Putting Our Solar System in Context: Origin, Dynamical and Physical Evolution of Multiple Planet Systems", Austria, April, 2010 *SIAM/RSME-SCM-SEMAMeeting:"Emerging Topics in Dynamical Systems and Partial Differential Equations", Barcelona, May, 2010 *Workshop in honor of P. Farinella, Pisa, June 2010 *Europlanet Science Conference, Rome, September 2010. *XV Brazilian Colloquium of Orbital Dynamics, Theresopolis (BR), Dec. 2010 *The 15th International Conference on Gravitational Microlensing, Salerno, Jan 2011. *WE-Heraeus Seminar on Extrasolar Planets, Bad Honnef, June 2011. *ORIGINS 2011, Montpellier, July 2011. *Gordon Conference on the origins of solar systems, Mt. Holyoke College, July 2011. *Observing Planetary Systems, ESO, Santiago, March 2012 *Goldschmidt conference, section "Chemical and isotopic constraints on planetary accretion and differentiation", Montreal, June 2012. *Conference: “Planet formation and evolution”, Munich, September 2012 *Royal Society Meeting on Extrasolar Planets, London, March 2013 *Royal Society Meeting on Moon Origin, London, September, 2013 *First Cospar Symposium, Bangkok, November 2013. *Invited lecture at "Academie Royale de Belgique", January 11, 2014 *ELSI workshop "Origin and Evolution of the Earth-Life System.", Tokyo, March 2014 *ACM, Helsinki, June 2014 *Characterizing Planetary Systems Across the HR Diagram, Cambridge (UK), July 2014. *Lobanov-Rostovsky Lecture, Oxford (UK), Decembeer 2014. *International Workshop in Jacques Laskar's honour, Paris, Arpil 2015. *Workshop "Formation of the Solar System II", Berlin, June 2015. *IAU FM318 « Highlights in the exploration of Small Worlds », Honolulu, August, 2015. *COSPAR symposium, Iguazu, Nov. 9-13, 2015 *Workshop "Planet formation and Evolution", Duisburg, March 2016 *Workshop "Primitive material in the solar system II", Villefranche sur Mer, juin, 2016 *Royal Society Discussion Meeting: Cometary Science after Rosetta, June 2016 *Lorentz workshop "New Directions in planet formation", July, 2016 *COMETS 2016, Toulouse, Nov. 2016 *Gordon conference, Mount Holyo, June 2017
*CelmecVII, Viterbo (Italy), September, 2017
*Galileo Conference EGU, Furnas, Azores, October 2017
*ISSI workshop: “Comets: Post 67P perspectives”, Bern, January 2018
*workshop:Water during planet formation and evolution, Zurich, February, 2018
*Les Houches school "Volatile elements in the Solar System", March 2018
*workshop: "The transNeptunian Solar System", Coimbra, March 2018.
*Workshop Planet Formation and Evolution, Rostock, 2019
*Workshop "Planet-forming disks", Menaggio, 2019
*International meeting "Great barriers in planet formation", Palm Cove, 2019.
*Workshop "Discs to Planets", Ringberg Castle, 2019
Publications
- 251 refereed publications in international journals (see list) - 51 invited review papers (see list)
20,200 citations and H-factor=76 (source ADS Sept 11, 2020)
-1 book: Modern Celestial Mechanics; Aspects of Solar System Dynamics. Taylor & Francis/Cambridge Scientific Publishers. THE BOOK IS SOLD OUT. DOWNLOAD A FREE PDF COPY!
Data associated to the manuscript Contemporary formation of early solar system planetesimals at two distinct radial locations, in press in Nature Astronomy