Lorenzo Giudici ↗ has been awarded an Outstanding Paper Award for Young Scientist for 2023 by the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) for the manuscript "Probabilistic multi-dimensional debris cloud propagation subject to non-linear dynamics", coauthored by Mirko Trisolini and Camilla Colombo ↗, which was recently published in the journal Advances in Space Research.

The paper is available Open Access at the following link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2023.04.030 ↗

The research work in the paper was funded by the European Research Council under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 679086 - COMPASS) and by the European Space Agency contract 4000133981/21/D/KS.

Short bio:

Lorenzo Giudici is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Aerospace Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, as part of the COMPASS ↗ and GREENSPECIES ERC projects ↗.

His research focuses on the application of the continuum mechanics formalism to the modelling of space debris, to address the orbital propagation of large population of fragments at a limited computational cost.

Main outcomes of his work are a probabilistic debris evolutionary model and sustainability metrics to measure the environmental impact of missions in space.