Education:

PhD. in Space Engineering (astrodynamics). National Institute for Space Research (INPE)/ Division of Orbital Mechanics and Control, Sao Paulo, Brazil (www.inpe.br).

M.S. Degree in Space Engineering (astrodynamics). National Institute for Space Research (INPE)/ Division of Orbital Mechanics and Control, Sao Paulo, Brazil (www.inpe.br).

B.Sc in Physics with specialization in Astronomy. Physics Institute, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil (www.usp.br).

Professional/Scientific Experience:

Graduate Faculty 08/2020 – present

Physics Department, University of Central Florida

Observatory Scientist 05/2019 – present

Arecibo Observatory - UCF, Planetary Radar Science Group, Arecibo, Puerto Rico, USA.

Postdoctoral Researcher 05/2017 – 05/2019

Arecibo Observatory - UCF, Planetary Radar Science Group, Arecibo, Puerto Rico, USA.

Postdoctoral Researcher 09/2014 - 02/2017

McGill University/ Mechanical Engineering Department, Montreal, Canada.

Postdoctoral Researcher 01/2014 - 08/2014

National Institute for Space Research (INPE)/ Division of Orbital Mechanics and Control, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Peer-reviewed and non peer-reviewed publications:

F. C. F. Venditti, . K. A. de Almeida, A. F. B. A. Prado. Using an integral index to search for orbits around oblate spheroids. Planetary and Space Science. Vol.192, 105063, 2020.

J. D. Giogini, F. C. F. Venditti, S. E. Marshall. “2015 EG”, Central Bureau Electronic Telegrams, 2020.

F. C. F. Venditti, L. O. Marchi, A. K. Misra, D. O. Sanchez, A. F. B. A. Prado. “Dynamics of tethered asteroid systems to support planetary defense”. European Physical Journal Special Topics. (Celestial Mechanics in the XXIst century), 229, pp.1463-1477, 2020.

Barbee BW, et al (including ). Future Spacecraft Missions for Planetary Defense Preparation. White paper submitted to The Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey. 2020:2023-32, 2020. (White Paper)

Kofman, V., Moeckel, C., Orton, G., Venditti, F., Migliorini, A., Faggi, S., Cordiner, M., Liuzzi, G., Lippi, M., de Pater, E.W. and Rivera-Valentin, E.G. Synergies between ground-based and space-based observations in the solar system and beyond. arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.01080, 2020. (White Paper)

Haynes, M., Virkki, A.K., , H, Hickson, D., Pinilla-Alonso, N., Brisset, J., Benner, L.A., Raymond, C.A., Lazio, J., Freeman, A. and Castillo-Rogez, J. Asteroids Inside Out: Radar Tomography, 2020. (White Paper)

Rivera-Valentín, E.G., et al (including Venditti, F. C. F.). The Importance of Ground-Based Radar Observations for Planetary Exploration, 2020. (White Paper)

Virkki, A.K., et al (including Venditti, F. C. F.). Near-Earth Object Characterization Using Ground-Based Radar Systems, 2020. (White Paper)

Rivkin, A.S., et al (including Venditti, F. C. F.). Asteroid Resource Utilization: Ethical Concerns and Progress. arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.03369, 2020. (White Paper)

Binzel, R.P., et al (including Venditti, F. C. F.). Apophis 2029: Decadal Opportunity for the Science of Planetary Defense. White paper submitted to The Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey, pp.2023-2032, 2020. (White Paper)

Lazio, Joseph, et al (including ). "Linking the Solar System and Extrasolar Planetary Systems with Radar Astronomy: Infrastructure for" Ground Truth" Comparison." arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.05171 (2019). (White Paper)

Roshi, D. Anish, et al (including Venditti, F. C. F.). "Astro2020 Activities and Projects White Paper: Arecibo Observatory in the Next Decade." arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.06052, 2020. (White Paper)

Taylor, P., et al (including Venditti, F. C. F.). "Planetary Radar Astronomy with Ground-Based Astrophysical Assets." Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. Vol. 51. No. 3, 2020. (White Paper)

A.K. Virkki, S.E. Marshall, F. C. F. Venditti, L.F. Zambrano Marin, E.G. Rivera-Valentin, P.A. Taylor. “2016 AZ_8”, Central Bureau Electronic Telegrams, 2019.

Patrick A. Taylor, Edgard G. Rivera-Valentin, Sean E. Marshall, Lance A.M. Benner, Anne K. Virkki, Flaviane C.F. Venditti, Luisa F. Zambrano-Marina, Sriram S. Bhiravarasua, Betzaida Aponte-Hernandez, Carolina Rodriguez Sanchez-Vahamonde, Jon D. Giorgini. “Arecibo Radar Observations of Near-Earth Asteroid 3200 Phaethon During the 2017 Apparition”. Planetary and Space Science. Vol. 167, pp 1-8, 2019.

Venditti, F. C. F.; Rocco, E. M. “Modelling asteroids to assist in orbiting and landing missions”. Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, Volume 162, AAS 17-768, 2018.

Venditti, F. C. F.; Prado, A. F. B. A.; “Mapping Orbits regarding Perturbations due to the Gravitational Field of a Cube”. Mathematical Problems in Engineering (Print), v. 2015, p. 1-11, 2015.

Venditti, F. C. F.; Prado, A. F. B. A.; “A Method to Evaluate the Perturbation of Nonspherical Bodies”. Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, v. 153, p. 1143-1163, 2015.

Venditti, F. C. F.; Rocco, E. M. ; Prado, A. F. B. A. “Trajectory control around non-spherical bodies modelled with the formulation for parallelepipeds”. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Vol. 465, No. 1, p. 012008, IOP Publishing, 2013.

Venditti, F. C. F. “Orbital Maneuvers Around Irregular Shaped Bodies”. PhD thesis, http://urlib.net/8JMKD3MGP7W/3F7Q5U2, 2013.

Venditti F. C. F., Rocco E. M., Prado A. F. B. A.. “Orbital trajectories control around non-spherical bodies”. American Institute of Physics proceedings, Vol. 1493, p. 1083, 2012.

Venditti, F. C. F.; Rocco, E. M. ; Prado, A. F. B. A.; Suhkanov, A. “Gravity-assisted maneuvers applied in the multi-objective optimization of interplanetary trajectories”. Acta Astronautica, v. 67, n. 9, p. 1255-1271, 2010.

Venditti, F. C. F. “Gravity assisted maneuvers applied in the optimization of interplanetary trajectories with time constraint”. Master’s thesis, 2009.

Magalhães, A. M., Pereyra, A., Melgarejo, R., de Matos, L., Carciofi, A. C., Venditti, F. C. F., Valentim, R. and Gabriel, V. S. The Southern Optical/Infrared Survey of Interstellar Polarization in the Galaxy. In AIP Conference Proceedings (Vol. 784, No. 1, pp. 715-720). American Institute of Physics, 2005.

Magalhaes, A. M., Pereyra, A., Melgarejo, R., de Matos, L., Carciofi, A. C., Venditti, F. C. F., Valentim, R., Vidotto, A. A., da Silva, F. N., de Souza, P. P. F. and Faria, H., 2005, December. A southern optical/infrared survey of interstellar polarization. In Astronomical Polarimetry: Current Status and Future Directions (Vol. 343, p. 305), 2005.

Conference/Meetings Oral Presentations/Proceedings:

F. Venditti, A. Virkki, S. Marshall, P. Taylor, J. Giorgini, D. C. Hickson. “Arecibo Observatory observation of potentially hazardous asteroid 2020 NK1”. DPS, 2020.

F. Venditti, A. Virkki, S. Marshall, D. C. Hickson, P. Taylor, L. Zambrano-Marin. “Arecibo Observatory: a ground and space joint effort in support of small bodies exploration”. Planets 2020 Workshop, Santiago, Chile, 2020.

F. Venditti , A. Virkki, S. Marshall, D. C. Hickson , L. Zambrano-Marin. “Arecibo Observatory: Supporting Planetary Defense”. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2019.

F. C. F. Venditti, L. O. Marchi, A. K. Misra, Diogo Sanchez, A. F. B. A. Prado. “On the Dynamics of Asteroid Deflection Using Boulders”. EPSC-DPS 2019, Geneva, Switzerland, 2019.

F. Venditti , N. Pinilla, S. Marshall, A. Virkki, D. C. Hickson , L. Zambrano-Marin. “Arecibo Observatory: Supporting Solar System Exploration”. SSERVI, Mountain View, CA, 2019.

F. Venditti , S. Marshall, A. Virkki, P. Taylor, J. Giorgini , L. Zambrano-Marin , E. Rivera-Valentin , S. Bhiravarasu , B. Aponte. “Radar Astrometry of Near-Earth Asteroids from the Arecibo Observatory: 2018-2019. 50th Division on Dynamical Astronomy, Boulder, CO, USA, 2019.

F. C. F. Venditti, L. O. Marchi, A. K. Misra, Diogo Sanchez, A. F. B. A. Prado. “Asteroid Mitigation Strategies Using Tethers”. 6th Planetary Defense Conference, Washington, DC, USA 2019.

L. O. Marchi, F. C. F. Venditti, A. K. Misra, A. F. B. A. Prado. “Effect of Earth-Moon perturbation on the deflection of tethered asteroid systems”. 69th International Astronautical Congress, Bremen, Germany, 2018. (speaker)

L. O. Marchi, F. C. F. Venditti, D. Sanchez, A. F. B. A. Prado. “Dynamical effects of solar radiation pressure on the deflection of near-Earth asteroids”. Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Snowbird, UT, USA, 2018.

Brozovic M., ...Venditti, F. C. F. et al. “Goldstone radar observations of triple near- Earth asteroid 3122 Florence”. 42nd Cospar, Pasadena, CA, USA, 2018.

F. C. F. Venditti, L. O. Marchi, A. K. Misra, A. F. B. A. Prado. “Dynamics of tethered binary asteroid systems”. 49th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, The Woodlands, Texas, 2018.

Taylor P. A., Venditti F. C. F., Marshall S. E, Virkki A. K., Benner L. A. M., et al. Radar and Infrared Observations of Near-Earth Asteroid 3200 Phaethon. 49th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, The Woodlands, Texas, 2018.

Taylor, P. A.; Venditti, F. C. F.; Virkki, A; Warner, B; Aznar, A; Howell, E. S.; Vervack, R. J.; Crowell, J. L.; Hinkle, M.; Zambrano-Marin, L. F.; Aponte-Hernandez, B.; Rivera-Valentin, E. G.; Bhiravarasu, S. S.; Sanchez-Vahamonde, C. R.; Harris, A. W.; Fernandez, Y. R.; Marshall, S. E. “Radar, Optical, and Infrared Observations of Equal-Mass Binary Near-Earth Asteroid (190166) 2005 UP156”. 49th annual Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting, Provo, UT, 2017.

Rivera-Valentin, E. G.; Taylor, P. A.; Venditti, F. C. F.; Virkki, A; Zambrano-Marin, L. F.; Aponte-Hernandez, B.; Bhiravarasu, S. S. “Arecibo Radar Observations of Near-Earth Asteroids”, 49th annual Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting, Provo, UT, 2017.

Venditti, F. C. F.; Rocco, E. M. “Modelling asteroids to assist in orbiting and landing missions”. Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Stevenson, WA, USA, 2017.

Venditti, F. C. F.; “Modelling and mapping orbits around asteroids”. Canadian Space Exploration Workshop - CSEW 2016, Montreal, 2016.

Venditti, F. C. F.; “Mapping the gravitational field of asteroids using a new approach for the mass concentrations model”. ASTRO 2016, Ottawa, ON, 2016.

Venditti, F. C. F.; Arun K. Misra; “Deflection of a Binary Asteroid System Using Tethers”. In: 66th International Astronautical Congress/ IAC, Jerusalem, Israel, 2015.

Venditti, F. C. F.; Prado, A. F. B. A.; “A method to evaluate the perturbation of non- spherical bodies”. In: 2nd IAA Conference on Dynamics & Control of Space Systems, Roma, 2014.

Venditti, F. C. F.; Rocco, E. M. ; Prado, A. F. B. A. “Orbital maneuvers around irregular shaped bodies”. 44th Meeting of the Division on Dynamical Astronomy, 5-9 may, Paraty-RJ/Brazil, American Astronomical Society/AAS, 2013.

Venditti, F. C. F.; Rocco, E. M.; Prado, A. F. B. A. “Multi-objective Optimization of Interplanetary Trajectories with Sequential Gravity Assisted Maneuvers”. VII National Conference of Mechanical Engineering, Sao Luis, Maranhao, Brazil, 2012.

Venditti, F. C. F.; Rocco, E. M. ; Prado, A. F. B. A.. Orbital trajectories control around non-spherical bodies. In: 9th International Conference on Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Aerospace and Sciences (ICNPAA), Vienna, Austria, 2012.

Venditti, F. C. F.; Rocco, E. M. ; Prado, A. F. B. A. . A comparison of gravity-assisted maneuvers in different planets to optimize interplanetary missions. In: 8th International Conference on Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Aerospace and Sciences (ICNPAA), 2010, Sao Jose dos Campos, 2010.

Venditti, F. C. F. ; Rocco, E. M. ; Prado, A. F. B. A. ; Suhkanov, Alexander . Multi- objective Optimization Applied on the study of Interplanetary Trajectories Using Gravity Assisted Maneuvers on Different Planets”. In: XV Coloquio Brasileiro de Dinamica Orbital, 2010, Terezopolis. anais, 2010.

Venditti, F. C. F. ; Rocco, E. M. ; Prado, A. F. B. A. ; Suhkanov, Alexander . Gravity Assisted Maneuvers Applied on Interplanetary Trajectories to Pluto”. In: 60th International Astronautical Congress, 2009, Daejeon. IAC, 2009.

Venditti, F. C. F. ; Rocco, E. M. ; Prado, A. F. B. A. . “Gravity Assisted Maneuvers Applied on the Optimization of Interplanetary Trajectories Bonding with Time”. In: XIII Coloquio Brasileiro de Dinamica Orbital, 2006, Bertioga. anais, 2006.

Magalhaes, A. M ; Pereyra, A. ; Melgarejo, R. ; Matos, L. ; Carciofi, A. ; Venditti, F. C. F. ; Valentim, R. ; Vidotto, A. ; Silva, F. ; Souza, P . A Southern Optical/Infrared Survey of Interstellar Polarization. In: Astronomical Polarimetry Current Status and Future Directions, 2004, Waikoloa, Hawaii.

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