Thais Mothe-Diniz
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
Publications
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
-
LectureBusuoli, 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