Patrick Michel received his PhD in 1997 for a thesis titled "Dynamical evolution of Near-Earth Asteroids".
14 Facts About Patrick Michel
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Patrick Michel is specialist of the physical properties and the collisional and dynamical evolution of asteroids.
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Patrick Michel's researches focus on the collisional processes between asteroids, the origin of near-Earth objects, binary asteroids, their physical properties, their response to various processes as a function of their internal and surface properties, and the risks of impacts with the Earth.
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Patrick Michel's results have been the subject of more than 200 publications in refereed international journals, and have been featured on the covers of both Science and Nature.
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Patrick Michel is deeply involved in several space missions and mission concepts devoted to the investigation of small bodies and asteroid hazard.
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Patrick Michel belongs to the Near-Earth Object Mission Advisory Panel mandated by European Space Agency to recommend space missions devoted to a better understanding of the impact threat.
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Patrick Michel is leading the European science team of AIDA, for Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment, an international space cooperation inspired by Don Quichotte, a collaboration between ESA and NASA aimed at deflecting the secondary of the binary near-Earth asteroid Didymos using a kinetic impactor.
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Patrick Michel is a co-I on both the JAXA Hayabusa2 and NASA OSIRIS-REx sample return missions to a primitive near-Earth asteroid.
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Patrick Michel was a co-chair of the science study team of the MarcoPolo-R sample return mission during the assessment study phase at the ESA.
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Patrick Michel is responsible of the Work Package on numerical simulations of collisions and asteroid deflection by a kinetic impactor in the European Consortiums NEOShield and NEOShield-2 funded, respectively, by the FP7 and the Horizon2020 framework programmes, by the European Commission.
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Patrick Michel is the coordinator of the NEO-MAPP project, under the Horizon2020 framework programme.
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Patrick Michel has wide involvement in international organisations and belongs to the Science Program Committee of CNES.
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Patrick Michel belongs to the Action Team 14 of the COPUOS at the United Nations aimed at recommending actions and an international organisation to deal with the asteroid impact threat and to the Steering Committee of the International Asteroid Warning Network recommended by AT14.
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Patrick Michel is the lead editor of the book Asteroids IV published in 2015 by the University of Arizona Press.