Simone Marchi’s research interests include the formation and evolution of terrestrial planets, the Moon, and asteroids. Marchi is involved with several space missions, including: NASA’s Dawn, Lucy, Psyche, and ESA’s Rosetta, BepiColombo, JUICE. Marchi has written more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, and has published a trade book (Colliding Worlds, OUP 2021), edited Vesta and Ceres (CUP 2022), and edited The Lucy Mission (Springer 2026). Marchi received a bachelor’s degree in Physics and a Ph.D. in Applied Physics in 2003 from Pisa University. Marchi is a recipient of the international Farinella Prize (2017) and the NASA Susan Mahan Niebur Early Career Award (2014), along with several NASA and ESA Group Achievements Awards.
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