9th IAA PLANETARY DEFENSE CONFERENCE 2025

Name: 9th IAA PLANETARY DEFENSE CONFERENCE 2025
Start: 2025-05-05T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-05-09T17:00:00+02:00
Location: STELLENBOSCH, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

May 5 – 9, 2025

STELLENBOSCH, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

Africa/Johannesburg timezone

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Speaker List

Paul Abell (NASA Johnson Space Center)
- Speaker at PREDICTED DISCOVERY OF LOW-DELTA V TARGETS AMONG THE NEO POPULATION BY NEO SURVEYOR
Lauren Abrahams (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
- Speaker at High-Fidelity Modeling of Asteroid Ocean Impacts: Understanding Tsunamis Generation and Atmospheric Responses
Michael Aftosmis (NASA Ames Research Center)
- Speaker at High-Fidelity Blast Propagation for PDC25 Impact Scenarios
Rudolf Albrecht (Austrian Space Forum)
- Speaker at Multi-Parameter Monitoring of the Potential Impact of the Exercise Asteroid
Simon Anghel (Observatoire de Paris)
- Speaker at Kinetic energy estimation of ton-TNT scale impacts based on well-known events
Jacques Arnould (CNES)
- Speaker at THE DAY AFTER FORWARD-LOCKING ETHICAL LESSONS FROM APOPHIS’ PASSAGE
Justin Atchison (The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)
- Speaker at MASS MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES FOR HIGH-SPEED FLYBY RECONNAISSANCE MISSIONS OF POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS ASTEROIDS
- Speaker at Retasking In-flight Spacecraft for Rapid Response Reconnaissance in Planetary Defense Exercises
- Speaker at The Accessibility of Potentially Hazardous Asteroids for Ballistic Rapid Reconnaissance Flyby Missions
Brin Bailey (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- Speaker at Pulverize It (PI): intentional robust disruption (IRD) for multi-modal planetary defense
Ronald-Louis Ballouz (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)
- Speaker at A Gravity Tractor Mission Concept to a Binary Asteroid
- Speaker at The catastrophic disruption threshold of 50-100 m asteroids: laboratory experiments, numerical simulations, and application to the PDC2025 scenario
Brent W Barbee (University of Maryland, Faculty Aerospace Engineering)
- Speaker at Refining Asteroid Mass Uncertainty via Volume, Porosity, and Density Constraints for Optimal Flyby Mission Design
Brent Barbee (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
- Speaker at Legal and Policy Considerations for Multi-Action Deflection of Hazardous Near-Earth Objects
- Speaker at NASA Analysis of Space Mission Options for the 2025 Planetary Defense Conference Hypothetical Asteroid Impact Threat Scenario
Lucas Barbero Sanchez (MSc Student in Aerospace Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
- Speaker at Trajectory and CubeSat Mission Design for Plasma Physics Observations during the 2029 Apophis Flyby
Elena Basile (Politecnico di Milano)
- Speaker at ANALYSIS OF ASTEROID DEFLECTION MISSION OPTIONS FOR THE 2025 PLANETARY DEFENSE CONFERENCE HYPOTHETICAL ASTEROID IMPACT THREAT SCENARIO BY THE ITALIAN SPACE AGENCY DELEGATION AT SMPAG
Adam Battle
- Speaker at A New Program for Rotational Characterization of Near-Earth Objects
James Bauer (University of Maryland)
- Speaker at An IAWN Comet Campaign
Jim Bell (Arizona State University)
- Speaker at Apophis Pathfinder: An Innovative Milo Space Science Institute Smallsat Mission for Initial Planetary Defense and Scientific Characterization of PHA (99942) Apophis
Luis Benet (ICF-UNAM, Mexico)
- Speaker at Impact probability predictions for 2024 PDC25 via jet transport techniques
Lance Benner (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
- Speaker at Status of Near-Earth Asteroid Radar Observations at Goldstone
Evan Bjonnes (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
- Speaker at Spheral Simulations of the Atmospheric Entry and Energy Deposition of PDC25 Threat Scenario Asteroids
Mark Boslough (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
- Speaker at 2032 AND 2036 RISK ENHANCEMENT FROM NEOs IN THE TAURID STREAM
- Speaker at LAMB WAVE DRIVEN TSUNAMI DAMAGE QUANTIFICATION ALONG THE 2025 PDC RISK CORRIDOR
- Speaker at PREVENTING AND CORRECTING SPREAD OF MISINFORMATION ABOUT NEOS, IMPACTS, AIRBURSTS, AND PLANETARY DEFENSE
Pierre Bousquet (Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales)
- Speaker at French involvement in Planetary Defense Missions
Marina Brozovic (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
- Speaker at 3D shape model and spin state of 99942 Apophis estimated from 2013 radar and lightcurve data
Melissa Brucker (University of Arizona.)
- Speaker at DISCOVERING NEAR-EARTH ASTEROIDS WITH THE BOK NEO SURVEY
Mary Burkey (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
- Speaker at Probing Nuclear-Initiated Robust Disruption in Mesh-Based Simulations
Melissa Buys (University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA)
- Speaker at Refining Asteroid Mass Uncertainty via Volume, Porosity, and Density Constraints for Optimal Flyby Mission Design
Wendy Caldwell (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
- Speaker at Quantifying Uncertainties in Modeling Choices for Time-Sensitive Applications
Guifré Molera Calvés (Univerity of Tasmania)
- Speaker at Radar and optical tracking of Near-Earth Objects at the University of Tasmania
Adriano Campo Bagatin (Universidad de Alicante)
- Speaker at Overview of NEO-related research by the Planetary Science Team at University of Alicante (Spain)
Adriano Campo Bagatin (Universidad de Alicante)
- Speaker at Mass ejection by fast-spinning Didymos: orbiting dust and transference to Dimorphos
Juan Luis Cano (ESA)
- Speaker at Overall Results of the SMPAG Work Package on Mission Scenarios in Response to the 2025 Planetary Defense Conference Hypothetical Asteroid Impact Threat Scenario
Yilin Cao (Beijing Institute of Technology)
- Speaker at Autonomous Cooperative Navigation for Multi-Spacecraft Landing on Near-Earth Asteroids for Planetary Defense
Albino Carbognani (INAF-OAS)
- Speaker at NEAs photometric survey from Loiano Astronomical Station
Ashish Cavale (University of Colorado Boulder)
- Speaker at Analysis of Bennu’s Density Distribution Using Recent Mission Data
Marta Ceccaroni (Cranfield University)
- Speaker at Estimating the effect of Apophis’ close approach on Earth’s satellites.
Felipe Cepeda (Gimnasio Campestre School)
- Speaker at Teaching Risk Management Through the Lens of Asteroids and Disaster Strategies
Nancy Chabot (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab)
- Speaker at DEVELOPING A ROBUST FLYBY RECONNAISSANCE CAPABILITY FOR PLANETARY DEFENSE
Drury Charlie (ESA NEOCC)
- Speaker at Assessing the Vulnerabilities of the Meerkat Asteroid Guard
Zelong Chen (北京理工大学)
- Speaker at Research Progress on Small Celestial Body Flexible Landing
Olga Chernenko (Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI))
- Speaker at UTILIZING GRAVITY ASSIST MANEUVERS FOR ASTEROID CAPTURE INTO MOON-RESONANT EARTH SATELLITE ORBIT
Steven Chesley (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
- Speaker at The post-DART heliocentric orbit of Didymos and implications for the effectiveness of the DART impact
Paul Chodas (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)
- Speaker at A 2025 Update to the Asteroid Mitigation Response Plot
Paul Chodas (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)
- Speaker at Ion-Beam Deflection Missions for the 2024 PDC25 Scenario
Robert Citron (Southwest Research Institute)
- Speaker at Scaling relations for vapor and ejecta production for NEO impacts onto the Earth
Ashley Coates (NASA Ames Research Center)
- Speaker at Uncertainty Effects from an Asteroid Risk Assessment Perspective for the PDC25 Impact Scenario
Alexander Cohen (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- Speaker at Hydrocode Simulations of Robust Asteroid Disruption via Hypervelocity Impacts
Luca Conversi (ESA)
- Speaker at NEOMIR: PROJECT STATUS OF ESA’S SPACE-BASED INFRARED MISSION FOR NEO DETECTION EARLY WARNING
Adriana Daca (California Institute of Technology)
- Speaker at Apophis 2029: Advancing Planetary Science and Planetary Defense with the Caltech Mission
- Speaker at Apophis 2029: Synergy between Numerical Models and Radar Tomography Data from the Caltech Mission
Terik Daly (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory)
- Speaker at Hypothetical Asteroid Impact Exercise
R. Terik Daly (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory)
- Speaker at Reconnaissance Missions to Near-Earth Object Impact Threats: A Pragmatic Approach
Matthew Daniels (U.S. Department of Defense)
- Speaker at Protocols for Use of a Nuclear Explosive Device in Hazardous Asteroid Deflection
Sophie E. Deam (Space Science and Technology Centre, Curtin University)
- Speaker at A Near-Earth Object Model Calibrated to Earth Impactors
Joseph DeMartini (University of Maryland, College Park)
- Speaker at 2024 Schweickart Prize Winning Proposal: The Sunward NEO Surveillance and Early Twilight Detection (SUNSET) Collaboration
- Speaker at The Effect of Irregular Constituent Particle Shape and Internal Structure on the Anticipated Physical Outcomes of the Apophis 2029 Close Encounter
Larry Denneau (Institute of Astronomy, University of Hawaii)
- Speaker at NEO SURVEYS DOING MORE WITH MORE : OPTIMIZED SCHEDULING AND OBJECT SEARCH FOR MULTI-OBSERVATORY OPERATIONS
Hadrien Devillepoix (Curtin University)
- Speaker at Space to Lab Asteroid Studies with Imminent Impactors in the LSST era
Maxime Devogèle (NEO Coordination Center (ESA))
- Speaker at Lightcurve Analysis of Imminent Impactors for Planetary Defense Using Innovative Trail Technique
- Speaker at Measuring the Menace: Advances in Determining the Size of Hazardous Near-Earth Objects
Kassamba Abdel Aziz Diaby (Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny)
- Speaker at Engaging Students in Asteroid Search in Côte d'Ivoire
Benjamin Donitz
- Speaker at LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP: APPROACHES FOR RAPID RESPONSE RECONNAISSANCE OF NEOS
Jessie Dotson (NASA Ames Research Center)
- Speaker at The effect of prior knowledge on planetary defense scenario risk assessments
Josef Durech
- Speaker at Spin state of Apophis - predicting its orientation during and after the 2029 flyby
Karolina Dziadura (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
- Speaker at Statistical analysis of the observatory performances
Nicolas Erasmus (South African Astronomical Observatory)
- Speaker at Near-Earth Asteroid Follow-up Observations at the SAAO
Souheil Ezzedine (LLNL)
- Speaker at Scaling Implications of Terrestrial Impact of Meteors: Cratering, Ejecta & Cloud Formation, Induced Ground Motions
- Speaker at Simulation of PDC 2025 Asteroid Entry, Terrestrial Impacts, Hazard and Consequences with Emphasis on South Africa’s Stellenbosch & False Bay Communities
Laura Faggioli (ESA NEOCC / Starion)
- Speaker at ESA NEOCC: Impact Assessment of 2024 PDC25
Jinglang Feng (University of Strathclyde)
- Speaker at Impulsive and Slow-push Mitigation Options for 2025 PDC Hypothetical Asteroid Impact Scenario
Marco Fenucci (ESA NEOCC/PDO)
- Speaker at Ab initio strewn field for small asteroids impacts
- Speaker at Astrometry, orbit determination, and thermal inertia of the Tianwen-2 target asteroid (469219) Kamo`oalewa
Maryann Benny Fernandes (Graduate student)
- Speaker at Measuring Asteroid Distances from a Single Observatory in One Night with Upcoming All-Sky Telescopes
Estela Fernandez-Valenzuela (Florida Space Institute (University of Central Florida))
- Speaker at Rapid-Defender: A New Polarimeter for Planetary Defense
Lorraine Fesq (JPL/Caltech)
- Speaker at Novel Reutilization of the European Service Module in Service of Planetary Defense
George Flynn (State University of New York-Plattsburgh)
- Speaker at Hypervelocity Cratering and Disruption of Three L-type Ordinary Chondrites
Dora Fohring (ESA PDO NEOCC)
- Speaker at Current Status of ESA’s Flyeye Telescopes
Saverio Franzese (Politecnico di Milano)
- Speaker at ANALYSIS OF ASTEROID DEFLECTION MISSION OPTIONS FOR THE 2025 PLANETARY DEFENSE CONFERENCE HYPOTHETICAL ASTEROID IMPACT THREAT SCENARIO BY THE ITALIAN SPACE AGENCY DELEGATION AT SMPAG
Eric Frizzell (Politecnico di Milano)
- Speaker at Event-driven constellation mission design for in situ crater formation observation
- Speaker at Modeling the influence of layering on impact-induced seismic waves in rubble-pile aggregates with GRAINS
- Speaker at Sensitivity of surface modification to seismic waves in rubble-pile asteroids
Carson Fuls (University of Arizona)
- Speaker at Modern computational techniques for improving moving object detection pipelines with the Catalina Sky Survey
Laura Jamschon Mac Garry (Universidad de Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina, +54 9 11 5924 2425)
- Speaker at Geopolitical, Socio-Economic and Legal Aspects of the 2024PDC25 Event
Miguel Gavira-Aladro (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
- Speaker at Exhaustive search of gravity assist trajectories for rapid reconnaissance and deflection of fictitious asteroid PDC2025
Mahima Gehlot (Near earth object Project Group-SGAC)
- Speaker at Enhancing Near earth object detection and characterization by optimizing ground based technology and small satellite constellations
- Speaker at Mitigating the near-earth object threat: Comparative analysis of deflection and explosion
- Speaker at Near-earth object impact risk assessment and framework for international collaboration for impact mitigation and post-recovery strategies
Christopher Geiger (Lockheed Martin, 6801 Rockledge Dr, Bethesda, MD, 20817, USA, 301-897-6000)
- Speaker at Ethical Frameworks of Extramilitary Defense in Emerging Domains: Parallels in Cyber and Planetary Defense
Francesco Gianotto (ESA NEOCC / Starion)
- Speaker at The Aegis orbit determination and impact monitoring system architecture
Nathan Golovich (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
- Speaker at Rapid Apophis Characterization with Two Satellites (RA’s CATS): Residual Mission Benefit for NEO Tracking and Characterization
Edward Gomez (Las Cumbres Observatory, Goleta, CA USA)
- Speaker at Education, Outreach and Heritage on a global scale
Mikael Granvik (University of Helsinki, Finland / Luleå University of Technology, Sweden)
- Speaker at Tidal disruptions increase the number of asteroids on Earth-crossing orbits
Jan Thimo Grundmann (DLR Bremen)
- Speaker at BASTET – A MASCOT-style Nanolander Investigating the Subsurface of Apophis, Seismicity, and Tidal Forces during Earth Encounter
- Speaker at StarGrind & Armory Practice – Using Earth’s Best Bad Habits as a Last Ditch Stand Against Short Warning Time NEO Impacts
Daria Guidetti (INAF Italian National Institute for Astrophysics)
- Speaker at SORVEGLIATI SPAZIALI: LEVERAGING AR FOR PLANETARY DEFENSE AWARENESS
Anubhav Gupta (University of Colorado Boulder)
- Speaker at Advancing Planetary Defense: Electromagnetic Forces for Non-Contact Asteroid Deflection
Amanda Haapala-Chalk
- Speaker at LEVERAGING CISLUNAR ORBITS FOR THE UPCOMING APOPHIS ENCOUNTER
Charlie P Hanner (University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA)
- Speaker at Refining Asteroid Mass Uncertainty via Volume, Porosity, and Density Constraints for Optimal Flyby Mission Design
Diana Haritonova (University of Latvia, Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformatics)
- Speaker at NEO DETECTION USING IMAGE STACKING METHOD IMPLEMENTED IN CELESTIAL COORDINATES
Thomas Harris (IAA Conference Contributor)
- Speaker at PULSAR KINETIC IMPACT TECHNOLOGIES
Alain Herique (Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, CNES, IPAG, 38000 Grenoble, France)
- Speaker at Radar tomography of asteroid deep interior. JuRa / HERA to Didymos and the Radar to APOPHIS
Martin Hilchenbach (MPS Göttingen)
- Speaker at Grabbing a sample from a real Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA): A very fast Sample Return Mission opportunity
Masatoshi Hirabayashi (Georgia Institute of Technology)
- Speaker at Science operation planning for Hayabusa2#'s flyby at Asteroid (98943) Torifune
Shinji Horiuchi (CSIRO)
- Speaker at Southern Hemisphere Asteroid Radar Program (SHARP)
Matthew Huber (Planetary Science Institute)
- Speaker at New evaluation of the morphology of the Kalkkop Crater, South Africa
Toshinori Ikenaga (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)
- Speaker at Apophis Observation by JAXA Operational Satellite
Belén Yu Irureta-Goyena (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
- Speaker at CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS TO IMPROVE THE DISCOVERY OF NEAR-EARTH ASTEROIDS IN THE ZWICKY TRANSIENT FACILITY
Stavro Ivanovski (INAF- Astronomical Observatory of Trieste, Italy)
- Speaker at DUST DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS USING LICIACUBE OBSERVATIONS IN PREPARATION FOR THE HERA MISSION SCIENCE
Judith Jahnke (McGills Insitute of Air and Space Law)
- Speaker at Rouge Space Actors: Is there a Problem in our Current Domestic Regimes that might allow for an unauthorised Planetary Defence Mission?
Peter Jenniskens (SETI Institute)
- Speaker at Review of instrumentally recorded meteorite falls as geological hand specimens of asteroid families
- Speaker at Search for potentially hazardous long-period comets based on the projection of their meteoroid streams
Ozgur Karatekin (Royal Observatory of Belgium)
- Speaker at Satis: a fast-response ESA Planetary defence mission
Alex Karl
- Speaker at Welcoming Remarks
- Speaker at Asteroid impacts or social media misinformation – what’s worse? Introducing an effective media communication strategy for planetary defense
Michael S. Kelley (NASA Headquarters)
- Speaker at IAWN Planetary Defense Campaigns
Sama Khanjani
- Speaker at Enhancing Near earth object detection and characterization by optimizing ground based technology and small satellite constellations
Kathleen Kiker
- Speaker at How Much Warning Time for Asteroid Impacts Will We Have in the Vera Rubin Era?
Patrick King (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)
- Speaker at Experimental Calibration of X-Ray Energy Deposition Models for Planetary Defense with the OMEGA Laser
Laszlo Kiss (Konkoly Observatory, HUN-REN Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences)
- Speaker at Imminent impactor discoveries from Hungary: recent results and lessons learnt
Romana Kofler
- Speaker at Welcoming Remarks
Oluwatosin Kolade (Obafemi Awolowo University)
- Speaker at Asteroid Composition and Its Influence on Mitigation Strategies
- Speaker at Technologies for Asteroid Deflection: Strategies and Challenges
Veronika Korneyeva
- Speaker at A New Hydrocode Pipeline for Assessing Ground Effects of Chelyabinsk- to Tunguska-Sized Asteroid Airbursts
Detlef Koschny (Technical University of Munich)
- Speaker at The international response of space agencies to the PDC 2025 exercise - the ’SMPAG exercise’ - lessons learned
Oleksandr Kozhukhov (National Space Facilities Control and Test Center of State Agency of Ukraine)
- Speaker at SSAU’S ACTIVITIES IN NEO OBSERVATIONS IN 2019-2024
Rainer Kresken (ESA Darmstadt)
- Speaker at ESA’s Planetary Defence Office NEO Survey Strategy
Ed Kruzins (University of New South Wales Canberra)
- Speaker at SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE ASTEROID RESEARCH CONSORTIUM FOR SUPPORT TO PLANETARY DEFENCE
Kenichi Kumagai (Tokyo International University)
- Speaker at Incorporating Planetary Defense into the “Post-SDGs”, Speaker: Kenichi Kumagai
Kathryn Kumamoto (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
- Speaker at Probing heuristics for the kinetic disruption of asteroids
KRISHNA KUMAR KV
- Speaker at ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES FOR MITIGATING HAZARDOUS PROPELLANTS AND GASES INTERMINAL LIQUID STAGE OF NEAR EARTH ORBIT MISSION: ENHANCING PLANETARY DEFENSE
Yu-Hsuan (Beryl) Kuo (Feng Chia University)
- Speaker at Towards a Global Governance Framework for Planetary Defense: Enhancing Cooperation and Legal Structures in Asteroid Mitigation
Michael Küppers (ESA/ESAC)
- Speaker at The ESA Hera mission to Asteroid (65803) Didymos: On route to its target
Kin Thong Lee (TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY)
- Speaker at Optimizing Trajectories in Asteroid Defense Missions: Potential Gains from Eccentric Collision Approaches
Javier Licandro
- Speaker at ATLAS-Teide: A Modular and Cost-Effective Upgrade to the ATLAS network
Po-Yen Liu (Universidad de Alicante)
- Speaker at Collisional Spin-Up of Asteroids: Alternative Mechanisms of Binary Asteroid Formation Independent of YORP Effects
Gabe Loftusa (Space Dynamics Laboratory)
- Speaker at NEAR-EARTH OBJECT (NEO) SURVEYOR DEVELOPMENT - CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN SUPPORT OF PLANETARY DEFENSE
Eric MacLennan (University of Helsinki)
- Speaker at Physical Characterization of Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (1566) Icarus
Rahil Makadia (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Speaker at DESIGN CONSTRAINTS FOR ASTEROID DEFLECTION CAMPAIGNS BASED ON DELTA-V ESTIMATION TIMELINES
Robert Managan (LLNL)
- Speaker at Analytic NEO Deflection Formula Update and Expansion
Robert Managan (LLNL)
- Speaker at Analytic NEO Deflection Formula Update and Expansion
Gianluca Masi (Virtual Telescope Project)
- Speaker at The Virtual Telescope Project: a unique resource in near-Earth object outreach and education
Hannes Mayer (Competence Centre for Space Law and Policy, Department of Global Governance, University of Graz, hannes.mayerquni-graz.at, Universitätsstraße 15, A-8010 Graz, Austria, +433163803271)
- Speaker at ON THE LEGALITY OF ANY OTHER NUCLEAR EXPLOSION
Andrew McNeill (Bowling Green State University)
- Speaker at INFRARED PHOTOMETRY FOR NEAR-EARTH OBJECTS FROM SPITZER - THE FULL SAMPLE
John McVey (The Aerospace Corporation)
- Speaker at Rapid Reconnaissance and Characterization of Potentially Hazardous Asteroids and Comets with Solar Sailcraft
Nahum Melamed (The Aerospace Corporation)
- Speaker at Welcoming Remarks
- Speaker at Operationalizing the Didymos-Dimorphos Asteroid Test Site to Assess Additional Deflection Technologies
Colby Merrill
- Speaker at A Metric for Gravity Tractor Effectiveness
Patrick Michel (Université Côte d’Azur, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Laboratoire Lagrange)
- Speaker at The ESA RAMSES mission: A rendezvous with the asteroid Apophis during its close encounter with Earth in 2029
Marco Micheli (ESA PDO NEO Coordination Centre)
- Speaker at Follow-up Activities and Developments from ESA’s Planetary Defence Office
Nathan Moore (Sandia National Laboratories)
- Speaker at Nuclear Deflection of Kilometer-Scale Asteroids Simulated using Sandia’s Z Machine
Nick Moskovitz (Lowell Observatory)
- Speaker at Characterization of High Priority NEOs from the 4.3-m Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT)
Ahmed Moursi (National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics(NRIAG))
- Speaker at Investigation of Near-Earth Objects Using the 1.88m Telescope at NRIAG, Egypt
Peiran Mu (Beijing Institute of Technology)
- Speaker at Mission Planning Methods for Space-Based Monitoring of Hazardous Near-Earth Objects
Thomas Mueller (Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Garching)
- Speaker at PRE-IMPACT DETECTION OF CHELYABINSK-TYPE OBJECTS IN THE THERMAL INFRARED
Kristers Nagainis (University of Latvia Institute of Astronomy)
- Speaker at Probing shape, spin, and absolute magnitude: A comprehensive study of thirteen asteroids with MOID less than 1 AU
Theshaya Naidoo (University of Kwazulu Natal)
- Speaker at GOVERNANCE GAPS IN PLANETARY DEFENCE: A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF CURRENT INTERNATIONAL MECHANISMS AND THE CASE FOR REFORM
Tam Nguyen (University of Maryland, College Park)
- Speaker at Rapid Pre-discovery of Near-Earth Objects
Thobekile Sandra Ngwane (University of Cape Town/SAAO)
- Speaker at The Rapid-Response Fully-Automated NEA Follow-Up Program with the SAAO's 1-m Lesedi Telescope
Michael Nolan (University of Arizona)
- Speaker at DATA PRODUCTS FROM THE OSIRIS-APEX MISSION TO APOPHIS
Joseph A Nuth (NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar System Exploration Division, Code 690, Greenbelt MD 20771, USA 301-286-9467)
- Speaker at RAPID RESPONSE TO AN IMMINENT THREAT
Juan Ojeda Romero
- Speaker at LEVERAGING CISLUNAR ORBITS FOR THE UPCOMING APOPHIS ENCOUNTER
Tatsuaki Okada (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)
- Speaker at Thermal Infrared Imager TIRI onboard Hera and RAMSES missions
Steven Oleson (NASA Glenn Research Center)
- Speaker at Nuclear Electric Propulsion for Planetary Defense
Thomas Onyango (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)
- Speaker at HOW ASTEROID COMPOSITION CHANGES THE EFFECTIVENESS OF NUCLEAR DEFLECTION AND DISRUPTION MISSIONS
Jan Osburg (RAND)
- Speaker at Developing a “Planetary Defense Decisionmaker Guide”
- Speaker at Expanding our Planetary Defense Umbrella to Cislunar Space
Ana Lucia Pegetti (TA - Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica)
- Speaker at VALUE FOCUSED THINKING AS A TOOL FOR THE DEFINITION OF ELIGIBLE INITIATIVES FOR A PLANETARY DEFENCE STRATEGY IN BRAZIL
Andrea Pellacani (GMV Aerospace and Defence)
- Speaker at HERA GNC flying towards Didymos and its adaptation to RAMSES
Jorge Perez-Hernandez (Telespazio Germany GmbH)
- Speaker at Impact probability predictions for 2024 PDC25 via jet transport techniques
Scott Perl
- Speaker at Developing Asteroid Detection, Reconnaissance, and In-situ Scientific Discovery as a Platform for NEO Defense
Davide Perna (INAF - Rome Observatory)
- Speaker at The ANIME mission concept: exploring three near-Earth asteroids with a CubeSat
Edwin Peters (University of New South Wales Canberra)
- Speaker at A model based approach to asteroid detection and characterisation using bistatic continuous wave radar
Eloy Peña-Asensio
- Speaker at Opportunities for planetary defense with ESA’s LUMIO mission
Catherine S. Plesko (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
- Speaker at Options and Uncertainties for Nuclear Mitigation in the 2025 Hypothetical Asteroid Threat Exercise Scenario
Giovanni Poggiali (INAF-Astrophysical Observatory of Arcetri)
- Speaker at Micrometers Regolith Grain Size Properties Inferred by Laboratory Infrared Observation and their Implication for Planetary Protection
Anjani Polit (Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona)
- Speaker at OSIRIS-APEX OPERATIONS AT APOPHIS
Giuseppe Pupillo (INAF - Istituto di Radioastronomia, Via Gobetti 101, Bologna, 40128, Italy)
- Speaker at Radar Observation of Asteroids 2005 LW3 and 2006 WB with European Radio Telescopes
Maxim Pupkov
- Speaker at DESIGNING SPACECRAFT TRAJECTORIES FROM LIBRATION POINT ORBIT TO NEAR-EARTH ASTEROIDS
Miguel R. Alarcon (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias)
- Speaker at Prevalence of Fast Rotators in Small Near-Earth Asteroids: An Ongoing Survey from the Canary Island Observatories
Pablo Ramirez Moreta
- Speaker at The NEO Toolkit: a public NEO-dedicated software package by ESA’s Planetary Defence Office
Luis Eduardo Ramírez Montoya (ICF-UNAM, Mexico)
- Speaker at Impact probability predictions for 2024 PDC25 via jet transport techniques
Carol Raymond (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)
- Speaker at The Caltech Mission to Characterize Apophis
Vishnu Reddy (University of Arizona)
- Speaker at Near-Future Plans for IAWN Apophis Observing Campaigns
Rebeca Ribeiro (National Institute for Space Research (Brazil))
- Speaker at Trajectory optimization for deflection of asteroid 2024 PDC25 using genetic algorithms and departure via lunar swing-bys
Andrew Rivkin
- Speaker at JWST As a Tool for Early Characterization of Potential Impactors
- Speaker at Using the NEO Size-Frequency Distribution in Probablistic Assessments
James Roberts (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory)
- Speaker at Planetary defence implications of the OSIRIS-APEX mission
Darrel Robertson (NASA Ames Research Center)
- Speaker at Coupled Radiation-Hydrocode Predictions of Thermal and Blast Damage for PDC25
Adrienne Rudolph (University of Maryland)
- Speaker at TERP RAPTOR (Terrapin Engineered Rideshare Probe for Rapid-response Asteroid Apophis Profiling, Tracking, Observing, and Reconnaissance): Mission Concept Development
- Speaker at TREx: A Temporarily-Captured Orbiter Rendezvous Explorer & In-Situ Characterization Mission
Harold Safary (KENYA SPACE AGENCY)
- Speaker at Advancing Astronomy Education and Space Science through the Asteroid Search Campaign at the Kenya Space Agency
Bradley Salzbrenner (Sandia National Laboratories)
- Speaker at A Safe and Effective Nuclear Deflection Device for Planetary Defense
Irina San Sebastián (Politecnico di Milano)
- Speaker at Investigating the effect of aggregate parameters on the macro-scale properties of rubble-rile asteroids
Isaiah Santistevan (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
- Speaker at Simulating Asteroid Deflection and Disruption Using an X-Ray Energy Deposition Model in SPH
Krisztian Sarneczky (Konkoly Observatory, HUN-REN Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences)
- Speaker at Imminent impactor discoveries from Hungary: recent results and lessons learnt
Dhanisha Sateesh (SGAC)
- Speaker at CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS FOR A RENDEZVOUS RECONNAISSANCE MISSION TO AN IDENTIFIED ASTERIOD THREAT: THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS DEFLECTION
Daniel Scheeres (University of Colorado)
- Speaker at Modeling Apophis as a Bi-Lobate Rubble Pile Body using Contact Dynamics
Nikola Schmidt (Institute of International Relations, Prague, CZ/EU)
- Speaker at Roadmap to the planetary defense multilateral security regime
Alexander Michael Schuster (independent)
- Speaker at Deep space, multipurpose platforms for planetary defense
Jackson Shannon
- Speaker at LEVERAGING CISLUNAR ORBITS FOR THE UPCOMING APOPHIS ENCOUNTER
Dr.ABHINAV KUMAR SHRIVASTAVA (SHUBHAAKSHARAM EDUCATIONAL CONSULTANT PRIVATE LIMITED)
- Speaker at Establishment of International Asteroids Processing Space Station For Economic Feasible Space Mining For Extraction of Minerals and Rare Earth Metals And Minerals From Asteroids And Near Earth Objects For Green And Sustainable Energy With Early Achievement of “Net Zero” by 2075; By Application of An Instrumental Scientific Nonagon Model.
Andrey Shugarov (Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
- Speaker at System of Observation of Daytime Asteroids (SODA)
Fazle Siddique (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab)
- Speaker at LEVERAGING CISLUNAR ORBITS FOR THE UPCOMING APOPHIS ENCOUNTER
Willy Siegel (Innofacer.nl)
- Speaker at Towards angular and rotation tracking of Apophis with Meade telescope in 2029: Citizen science tracking ISS and presenting on public education site
Damya Souami (LESIA, Observatoire de Paris—Section Meudon, F-92195 Meudon Cedex, France; Université Côte d’Azur, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Laboratoire Lagrange, F-06304 NICE Cedex 4, France; naXys, Department of Mathematics, University of Namur, Namur, Belgium)
- Speaker at Stellar Occultations: a powerful Citizen science contribution to planetary defence
Federica Spoto (Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian)
- Speaker at Minor Planet Center Updates and New Developments
Wade Spurlock (NASA Ames Research Center)
- Speaker at A Semi-Analytic Lamb Wave Model for Prediction of Blast Overpressures from Large Asteroid Entries
Bringfried Stecklum (Thueringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg)
- Speaker at NEA observations with the World's Biggest Schmidt Telescope
Eric Stern (NASA Ames Research Center)
- Speaker at On the Utility of Orbital Bolide Observatories for Characterizing the Impactor Population
Thomas Stevenson (Curtin University)
- Speaker at Raining Fire: Meteoroid Characterisation based on Ballistic Trajectory Analysis
Angela Stickle (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory)
- Speaker at Designer Asteroids: Using experiments to better understand the effect of asteroid structure on momentum enhancement
Shogo Tachibana (University of Tokyo)
- Speaker at Low energy multi-impact experiments on (99942) Apophis
Gonzalo Tancredi (Depto. Astronomia, Fac. Ciencias, Udelar)
- Speaker at How many 1km NEAs are there? A critical revision of different estimates
Russell TerBeek (Sandia National Laboratories)
- Speaker at On the Design Possibilities of a Non-Traditional Nuclear Device for Planetary Defense
Madhu Thangavelu (Department of Astronautical Engineering & School of Architecture, University of Southern California)
- Speaker at LOSSOL: Line of Sight Speed of Light Directed Energy Technologies for Planetary Defense
Jana Ticha (Klet Observatory)
- Speaker at Hypothetical Asteroid Impact Scenario - Event For Public
Timothy Titus (USGS Astrogeology Science Center)
- Speaker at Asteroid-induced climate coupled cascading hazards along an asteroid risk corridor.
- Speaker at Global Supply Chain Exposure to Asteroid Impacts
- Speaker at Near-Earth asteroid regolith properties from thermal mm-wavelength observations
- Speaker at CREATING A COMMUNICATIONS KIT FOR FUTURE ASTEROID THREATS
- Speaker at Potential post-impact downstream flooding hazards risk assessment
Seenu Tiwari
- Speaker at Space Debris and the Consequences of Planetary Defence Operations
David E. Trilling (Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA)
- Speaker at A rapid-response program to characterize Near Earth Objects with LCO's MuSCAT instruments
sabghat Ullah (Beijing Institute of Technology)
- Speaker at The Legal Consequences of the Planetary Defense Missions, The Liability Framework, the Participation of the Private Sector, and International Cooperation
Matthew Vavrina (a.i. solutions)
- Speaker at Accessibility of Earth Impactors for Planetary Defense Rendezvous Missions
Szabolcs Velkei (MI Services Zrt.)
- Speaker at Real-time Discovery of Near-Earth Objects via Accelerated Image Analysis with AI Methods
Flaviane Venditti (University of Central Florida)
- Speaker at The potentially hazardous binary asteroid (285263) 1998 QE2
Gijs Verdoes Kleijn (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen)
- Speaker at Machine Learning assisted NEO Discovery and Polarimetric Characterization with Astronomical Surveys
Peter Veres (Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
- Speaker at Machine learning improvement of the Near Earth Object discovery process
Richard Wainscoat (University of Hawaii)
- Speaker at The Pan-STARRS Search for Near-Earth Objects: 10+ Years old and going strong
Madison Walker (United States Air Force Academy)
- Speaker at Enabling Planetary Defense: Science, Law, Ethics
James Walker (Southwest Research Institute)
- Speaker at Momentum Enhancement of Rubble Pile Simulants at 2 and 5.5 km/s
Kevin Walsh (Southwest Research Institute)
- Speaker at APOPHIS KINETIC IMPACT TEST AND CRATERING EXPERIMENT AFTER ITS CLOSE APPROACH TO THE EARTH
Yirui Wang (University of Strathclyde)
- Speaker at Impulsive and Slow-push Mitigation Options for 2025 PDC Hypothetical Asteroid Impact Scenario
Kibrop Webber (Kenya Space Agency)
- Speaker at Near-Earth Object (NEO) Discovery
Robert Weryk (The University of Western Ontario)
- Speaker at Identifying potential NEOs based on their single-tracklet motion
Lorien Wheeler (NASA Ames Research Center)
- Speaker at Airburst & Blast Damage for the PDC25 Impact Scenario: Why the Largest Asteroid is Not the Worst Case
Lisa Wier (Oklahoma State University)
- Speaker at Risk Perception of Near-Earth Objects as Hazards: A Research Design
Sean Wiggins
- Speaker at THE INFLUENCE OF MICRO- VS MACROPOROSITY IN THE DEFLECTION OF RUBBLE-PILE ASTEROIDS
Rosie Wilson (European Space Agency)
- Speaker at Asteroid Polarimetry & Classification with the 2-m Liverpool Telescope
Nancy C. Wolfson (The American institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics)
- Speaker at NON-GOVERNAMENTAL NEO DISCOVERY INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS INCLUDING THE ASTROMETRICA SOFTWARE
Quanzhi Ye (University of Maryland)
- Speaker at POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS ASTEROIDS AND TUNGUSKA-SIZED OBJECTS IN THE TAURID RESONANT SWARM
Makoto Yoshikawa (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency/Institute of Space and Astronautical Science)
- Speaker at Planetary Defense Activities in JAXA
Michal Zolnowski (6ROADS)
- Speaker at Capabilities of Independent Company 6ROADS Through a Global Network of Telescopes and Innovative Sensors
Roman Zolotarev (Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
- Speaker at On the parameters of NEO encounters with the Earth

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9th IAA PLANETARY DEFENSE CONFERENCE 2025