MITRI GIUSEPPE

Current academic position

Associate professor in Planetary astrophysics, University G. d’Annunzio, Italy
Space missions involvement

Co-Investigator: MARSIS radar sounder, ESA’s Mars Express (2019-ad oggi)
Co-Investigator: MORE radio science experiment, ESA’s Bepi-Colombo (2019-ad oggi)
Dawn-at-Ceres Guest Investigator: NASA’s Dawn (2015-2018)
Co-Investigator: 3GM radio science experiment, ESA’s JUICE (2014-ad oggi)
Co-Investigator: JANUS camera, ESA’s JUICE (2014-ad oggi)
Co-Investigator: RIME radar sounder, ESA’s JUICE (2014-ad oggi)
Cassini Participating Scientist: NASA/ESA/ASI’s Cassini-Huygens (2013-2017)

Selected publications:
[1] Mitri, G., Lunine, J. I., Mastrogiuseppe, M., Poggiali, V. 2019. Possible explosion crater origin of small lake basins with raised rims on Titan. Nature Geoscience. 12, no. 10: 791- 796.
[2] Griffith, C. A., Penteado, P. F., Turner, J. D., Neish, C. D., Mitri, G., Montiel, N. J., Schoenfeld, A., Lopes, R. M. C. 2019. A corridor of exposed ice-rich bedrock across Titan’s tropical region. Nature Astronomy 3, no. 7: 642-648.
[3] Mastrogiuseppe, M., Poggiali, V., Hayes, A. G., Lunine, J. I., Seu, R., Mitri, G., Lorenz, R. D. 2019. Deep and methane-rich lakes on Titan. Nature Astronomy. 3, no.: 535-542.
[4] Mitri G, Showman A P, Lunine J I, Lorenz R D 2007. Hydrocarbon lakes on Titan. Icarus, vol. 186, p. 385-394.
[5] Mitri G, Showman A P 2005. Convective conductive transitions and sensitivity of a convecting ice shell to perturbations in heat flux and tidal-heating rate: Implications for Europa. Icarus, vol. 177, p. 447-460.