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Thais Mothe-Diniz

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Thais Mothe-Diniz

Research Adviser
NV Faculty Administration
Faculty of Natural Sciences

thais.mothe-diniz@ntnu.no
+4773559639 +4790230304 Realfagbygget, E3-174, Gløshaugen, Gløshaugen, Høgskoleringen 5
About Publications Outreach

About

Field of study / work area at NTNU

 

  • General research advice (applications / follow-up of research projects / assistance in the application phase)
  • Support in the implementation phase of EU projects and other externally funded research projects
  • Mobilization/internationalization
  • Project management of EU projects coordinated by NTNU
  • Leaders support
  • Admin coordinator for FME-Hydrogeni
  • Project/Admin. manager for EU-projects REVITALISE, SisAl Pilot
  • Contact point for NTNU-Jotun collaboration

Competence

  • Project leadership
  • Team Player
  • Conflict Management - Certified "Street mediator" by Red Cross
  • International cooperation
  • Specialist in surface composition of small planets
  • Research communication
  • Board competence
  • IT / Linux / Mac
  • CRIStin
  • Language, physics and cognitive development of children with disabilities

Background

Education

  • PhD in Astronomy, 2002 - in the field of mineralogy of the small planets
  • MSc in Astrophysics, 1998 - Celestial Mechanics
  • Bachelor in pure mathematics, 1994 - project assignment within Maxwell's equations
  • Health Practitioner, 2015

Work Experience

  • Senior Advisor, @NV Faculty / NTNU (2018 -)
  • Senior Advisor @principal's staff, NTNU in Ålesund (2017)
  • Associate Professor @NTNU and / or @UFRJ (2008 - 2017)
  • Post-doc @National Observatory, Brazil (2002 - 2004 and 2005 - 2008)
  • Post-doc @Paris Observatory, France (2004 - 2005)
  • Assistant Professor @Brazil, (1994 - 2002)

Special interests

  • Music / Dance / Theater / Outdoor activities / Volunteering

Competencies

  • Project Management
  • Research Support

Publications

  • Chronological
  • By category
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2020

  • De Prá, M. N.; Pinilla-Alonso, Noemi; Carvano, Jorge M.; Licandro, Javier; Morate, David; Lorenzi, Vania. (2020) A comparative analysis of the outer-belt primitive families. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A)
    Academic article
  • Falch, Eva; Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Busuoli, Massimo; Hjellnes, Veronica Hammer. (2020) Position Paper on the European Commission`s Farm to Fork Strategy 2020. NTNU Food Forum
    Report

2018

  • De Prá, Mario N.; Pinilla-Alonso, Noemi; Carvano, Jorge M.; Licandro, Javier; Campins, Humberto; Mothe-Diniz, Thais. (2018) PRIMASS visits Hilda and Cybele groups. Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962)
    Academic article

2013

  • Jasmim, F.L.; Lazzaro, D.; Carvano, J.M.F.; Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Hasselmann, P.H.. (2013) Mineralogical investigation of several Qp asteroids and their relation to the Vesta family. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A)
    Academic article

2011

  • Ziffer, Julie; Campins, Humberto; Licandro, Javier; Walker, Matthew E.; Fernandez, Yanga; Clark, Beth Ellen. (2011) Near-infrared spectroscopy of primitive asteroid families. Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962)
    Academic article
  • de Leon, Julia; Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Licandro, Javier; Pinilla-Alonso, Noemi; Campins, Humberto. (2011) New observations of astroid (175706) 1996 FG3, primary target of the ESA Marco Polo-R mission. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A)
    Academic article
  • Henderson, Paul; Cloutis, Edward A.; Reddy, Vishnu; Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Emery, Joshua P.. (2011) The M-/X-asteroid menagerie . results of an NIR spectral survey of 45 main-belt astroids. Meteoritics and Planetary Science
    Academic article
  • Reddy, Vishnu; Carvano, J.M.F.; Lazzaro, D.; Michtchenko, Tatiana A.; Gaffey, Michael S.; Kelley, Michael S.. (2011) Mineralogical characterization of Baptistina Asteroid Family : Implications for K/T impactor source. Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962)
    Academic article
  • Willman, Mark; Jedicke, Robert; Moskovitz, Nicholas A.; Nesvorny, David; Vokrouhlicky, David; Mothe-Diniz, Thais. (2011) Corrigendum to "Using the youngest asteroid clusters to constrain the Space Weathering and Gardening rate on S-complex asteroids" [ICARUS 208 (2010) 758-772]. Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962)
    Academic article

2010

  • Campins, Humberto; Hargrove, Kelsey; Pinilla-Alonso, Noemi; Howell, Ellen; Kelley, Michael S.; Licandro, Javier. (2010) Water ice and organics on the surface of the asteroid 24 Themis. Nature
    Academic article
  • Carvano, Jorge M.; Hasselmann, P.H.; Lazzaro, Daniela; Mothe-Diniz, Thais. (2010) SDSS-based taxonomic classification and orbital distribution of main belt asteroids. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A)
    Academic article
  • Willman, Mark; Jedicke, Robert; Moskovitz, Nicholas A.; Nesvorny, David; Vokrouhlicky, David; Mothe-Diniz, Thais. (2010) Using the youngest asteroid clusters to constrain the Space weathering and Gardening rate on S-complex asteroids. Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962)
    Academic article
  • Clark, Beth Ellen; Ziffer, Julie; Nesvorny, David; Campins, Humberto; Rivkin, Andrew S.; Hiroi, Takahiro. (2010) Spectroscopy of B-type asteroids : Subgroups and meteorite analogs. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Planets
    Academic article

2009

  • Clark, Beth Ellen; Ockert-Bell, Maureen E.; Cloutis, Edward A.; Nesvorny, David; Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Bus, S. J.. (2009) Spectroscopy of K-complex asteroids: Parent bodies of carbonaceous meteorites?. Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962)
    Academic article

2008

  • Nesvorny, David; Roig, F.; Gladman, Brett; Lazzaro, Daniela; Carruba, V; Mothe-Diniz, Thais. (2008) Fugitives from the Vesta family. Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962)
    Academic article
  • Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Nesvorny, David. (2008) Visible spectroscopy of extremely young asteroid families. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A)
    Academic article
  • Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Nesvorny, David. (2008) Tirela: an unusual asteroid family in the outer main belt. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A)
    Academic article
  • Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Carvano, Jorge M.; Bus, S. J.; Duffard, R.; Burbine, T. H.. (2008) Mineralogical analysis of the Eos family from near-infrared spectra. Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962)
    Academic article

2007

  • Licandro, Javier; Campins, Humberto; Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Pinilla-Alonso, Noemi; de Leon, Julia. (2007) The nature of comet-asteroid transition object (3200) Phaethon. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A)
    Academic article
  • Campins, Humberto; Licandro, Javier; Pinilla-Alonso, Noemi; Ziffer, Julie; de Leon, Julia; Mothe-Diniz, Thais. (2007) Nuclear Spectra of Comet 28P Neujmin 1. Astronomical Journal
    Academic article

2006

  • Campins, Humberto; Ziffer, Julie; Licandro, Javier; Pinilla-Alonso, Noemi; Fernandez, Yanga; de Leon, Julia. (2006) Nuclear Spectra of Comet 162P/Siding Spring (2004 TU12). Astronomical Journal
    Academic article

2005

  • Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Carvano, Jorge M.. (2005) 221 Eos: a remnant of a partially differentiated parent body?. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A)
    Academic article
  • Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Roig, F.; Carvano, Jorge M.. (2005) Reanalysis of asteroid families structure through visible spectroscopy. Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962)
    Academic article
  • Vernazza, P; Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Barucci, M. A.; Birlan, M.; Carvano, Jorge M.; Strazzulla, G.. (2005) Analysis of near-IR spectra of 1 Ceres and 4 Vesta, targets of the Dawn mission. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A)
    Academic article

2004

  • Lazzaro, Daniela; Angeli, Claudia A.; Carvano, Jorge M.; Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Duffard, R.; Florczak, Marcos. (2004) S3OS2: the visible spectroscopic survey of 820 asteroids. Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962)
    Academic article

2003

  • Carvano, Jorge M.; Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Lazzaro, Daniela. (2003) Search for relations among a sample of 460 asteroids with featureless spectra. Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962)
    Academic article

2001

  • Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Di Martino, Mario; Bendjoya, Phillippe; Doressoundiram, Alain; Migliorini, Fabbio. (2001) Rotationally Resolved Spectra of 10 Hygiea and a Spectroscopic Study of the Hygiea Family. Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962)
    Academic article
  • Carvano, Jorge M.; Lazzaro, Daniela; Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Angeli, Claudia A.; Florczak, Marcos. (2001) Spectroscopic Survey of the Hungaria and Phocaea Dynamical Groups. Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962)
    Academic article
  • Angeli, Claudia A.; Guimarães, T. A.; Lazzaro, Daniela; Duffard, R.; Fernandez, S.; Florczak, Marcos. (2001) Rotation Periods for Small Main-Belt Asteroids From CCD Photometry. Astronomical Journal
    Academic article
  • Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Carvano, Jorge M.; Lazzaro, Daniela. (2001) Distribution of taxonomic classes in the main belt of asteroids. Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962)
    Academic article

2000

  • Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Gomes, R. S.. (2000) Corotation resonances and planetary formation. Planetary and Space Science
    Academic article
  • Lazzaro, Daniela; Michtchenko, T.; Carvano, Jorge M.; Binzel, R. P.; Bus, S. J.; Mothe-Diniz, Thais. (2000) Discovery of a Basaltic Asteroid in the Outer Main Belt. Science
    Academic article
  • Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Lazzaro, Daniela; Carvano, Jorge M.; Florczak, Marcos. (2000) Rotationally Resolved Spectra of Some S-type Asteroids. Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962)
    Academic article

1999

  • Florczak, M; Lazzaro, D.; Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Angeli, C. A.; Betzler, A. S.. (1999) A spectroscopic study of the Themis family. Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series
    Academic article
  • Lazzaro, Daniela; Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Carvano, Jorge M.; Angeli, Claudia A.; Betzler, Alberto S.; Florczak, Marcos. (1999) The Eunomia Family: A Visible Spectroscopic Survey. Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962)
    Academic article

Journal publications

  • De Prá, M. N.; Pinilla-Alonso, Noemi; Carvano, Jorge M.; Licandro, Javier; Morate, David; Lorenzi, Vania. (2020) A comparative analysis of the outer-belt primitive families. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A)
    Academic article
  • De Prá, Mario N.; Pinilla-Alonso, Noemi; Carvano, Jorge M.; Licandro, Javier; Campins, Humberto; Mothe-Diniz, Thais. (2018) PRIMASS visits Hilda and Cybele groups. Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962)
    Academic article
  • Jasmim, F.L.; Lazzaro, D.; Carvano, J.M.F.; Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Hasselmann, P.H.. (2013) Mineralogical investigation of several Qp asteroids and their relation to the Vesta family. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A)
    Academic article
  • Ziffer, Julie; Campins, Humberto; Licandro, Javier; Walker, Matthew E.; Fernandez, Yanga; Clark, Beth Ellen. (2011) Near-infrared spectroscopy of primitive asteroid families. Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962)
    Academic article
  • de Leon, Julia; Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Licandro, Javier; Pinilla-Alonso, Noemi; Campins, Humberto. (2011) New observations of astroid (175706) 1996 FG3, primary target of the ESA Marco Polo-R mission. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A)
    Academic article
  • Henderson, Paul; Cloutis, Edward A.; Reddy, Vishnu; Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Emery, Joshua P.. (2011) The M-/X-asteroid menagerie . results of an NIR spectral survey of 45 main-belt astroids. Meteoritics and Planetary Science
    Academic article
  • Reddy, Vishnu; Carvano, J.M.F.; Lazzaro, D.; Michtchenko, Tatiana A.; Gaffey, Michael S.; Kelley, Michael S.. (2011) Mineralogical characterization of Baptistina Asteroid Family : Implications for K/T impactor source. Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962)
    Academic article
  • Willman, Mark; Jedicke, Robert; Moskovitz, Nicholas A.; Nesvorny, David; Vokrouhlicky, David; Mothe-Diniz, Thais. (2011) Corrigendum to "Using the youngest asteroid clusters to constrain the Space Weathering and Gardening rate on S-complex asteroids" [ICARUS 208 (2010) 758-772]. Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962)
    Academic article
  • Campins, Humberto; Hargrove, Kelsey; Pinilla-Alonso, Noemi; Howell, Ellen; Kelley, Michael S.; Licandro, Javier. (2010) Water ice and organics on the surface of the asteroid 24 Themis. Nature
    Academic article
  • Carvano, Jorge M.; Hasselmann, P.H.; Lazzaro, Daniela; Mothe-Diniz, Thais. (2010) SDSS-based taxonomic classification and orbital distribution of main belt asteroids. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A)
    Academic article
  • Willman, Mark; Jedicke, Robert; Moskovitz, Nicholas A.; Nesvorny, David; Vokrouhlicky, David; Mothe-Diniz, Thais. (2010) Using the youngest asteroid clusters to constrain the Space weathering and Gardening rate on S-complex asteroids. Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962)
    Academic article
  • Clark, Beth Ellen; Ziffer, Julie; Nesvorny, David; Campins, Humberto; Rivkin, Andrew S.; Hiroi, Takahiro. (2010) Spectroscopy of B-type asteroids : Subgroups and meteorite analogs. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Planets
    Academic article
  • Clark, Beth Ellen; Ockert-Bell, Maureen E.; Cloutis, Edward A.; Nesvorny, David; Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Bus, S. J.. (2009) Spectroscopy of K-complex asteroids: Parent bodies of carbonaceous meteorites?. Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962)
    Academic article
  • Nesvorny, David; Roig, F.; Gladman, Brett; Lazzaro, Daniela; Carruba, V; Mothe-Diniz, Thais. (2008) Fugitives from the Vesta family. Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962)
    Academic article
  • Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Nesvorny, David. (2008) Visible spectroscopy of extremely young asteroid families. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A)
    Academic article
  • Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Nesvorny, David. (2008) Tirela: an unusual asteroid family in the outer main belt. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A)
    Academic article
  • Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Carvano, Jorge M.; Bus, S. J.; Duffard, R.; Burbine, T. H.. (2008) Mineralogical analysis of the Eos family from near-infrared spectra. Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962)
    Academic article
  • Licandro, Javier; Campins, Humberto; Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Pinilla-Alonso, Noemi; de Leon, Julia. (2007) The nature of comet-asteroid transition object (3200) Phaethon. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A)
    Academic article
  • Campins, Humberto; Licandro, Javier; Pinilla-Alonso, Noemi; Ziffer, Julie; de Leon, Julia; Mothe-Diniz, Thais. (2007) Nuclear Spectra of Comet 28P Neujmin 1. Astronomical Journal
    Academic article
  • Campins, Humberto; Ziffer, Julie; Licandro, Javier; Pinilla-Alonso, Noemi; Fernandez, Yanga; de Leon, Julia. (2006) Nuclear Spectra of Comet 162P/Siding Spring (2004 TU12). Astronomical Journal
    Academic article
  • Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Carvano, Jorge M.. (2005) 221 Eos: a remnant of a partially differentiated parent body?. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A)
    Academic article
  • Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Roig, F.; Carvano, Jorge M.. (2005) Reanalysis of asteroid families structure through visible spectroscopy. Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962)
    Academic article
  • Vernazza, P; Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Barucci, M. A.; Birlan, M.; Carvano, Jorge M.; Strazzulla, G.. (2005) Analysis of near-IR spectra of 1 Ceres and 4 Vesta, targets of the Dawn mission. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A)
    Academic article
  • Lazzaro, Daniela; Angeli, Claudia A.; Carvano, Jorge M.; Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Duffard, R.; Florczak, Marcos. (2004) S3OS2: the visible spectroscopic survey of 820 asteroids. Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962)
    Academic article
  • Carvano, Jorge M.; Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Lazzaro, Daniela. (2003) Search for relations among a sample of 460 asteroids with featureless spectra. Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962)
    Academic article
  • Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Di Martino, Mario; Bendjoya, Phillippe; Doressoundiram, Alain; Migliorini, Fabbio. (2001) Rotationally Resolved Spectra of 10 Hygiea and a Spectroscopic Study of the Hygiea Family. Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962)
    Academic article
  • Carvano, Jorge M.; Lazzaro, Daniela; Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Angeli, Claudia A.; Florczak, Marcos. (2001) Spectroscopic Survey of the Hungaria and Phocaea Dynamical Groups. Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962)
    Academic article
  • Angeli, Claudia A.; Guimarães, T. A.; Lazzaro, Daniela; Duffard, R.; Fernandez, S.; Florczak, Marcos. (2001) Rotation Periods for Small Main-Belt Asteroids From CCD Photometry. Astronomical Journal
    Academic article
  • Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Carvano, Jorge M.; Lazzaro, Daniela. (2001) Distribution of taxonomic classes in the main belt of asteroids. Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962)
    Academic article
  • Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Gomes, R. S.. (2000) Corotation resonances and planetary formation. Planetary and Space Science
    Academic article
  • Lazzaro, Daniela; Michtchenko, T.; Carvano, Jorge M.; Binzel, R. P.; Bus, S. J.; Mothe-Diniz, Thais. (2000) Discovery of a Basaltic Asteroid in the Outer Main Belt. Science
    Academic article
  • Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Lazzaro, Daniela; Carvano, Jorge M.; Florczak, Marcos. (2000) Rotationally Resolved Spectra of Some S-type Asteroids. Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962)
    Academic article
  • Florczak, M; Lazzaro, D.; Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Angeli, C. A.; Betzler, A. S.. (1999) A spectroscopic study of the Themis family. Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series
    Academic article
  • Lazzaro, Daniela; Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Carvano, Jorge M.; Angeli, Claudia A.; Betzler, Alberto S.; Florczak, Marcos. (1999) The Eunomia Family: A Visible Spectroscopic Survey. Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962)
    Academic article

Report

  • Falch, Eva; Mothe-Diniz, Thais; Busuoli, Massimo; Hjellnes, Veronica Hammer. (2020) Position Paper on the European Commission`s Farm to Fork Strategy 2020. NTNU Food Forum
    Report

Outreach

2021

  • Lecture
    Busuoli, Massimo; Falch, Eva; Mothe-Diniz, Thais. (2021) Maximising opportunities deriving from strategic positioning at EU level through internal structured approach: ​ the NTNU Food Forum example​. European Association for reseach managers and administators EARMA Digital 2021 , Digitalt 2021-04-14 - 2021-04-20

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