Gonzalo TANCREDI

Bs in Astronomy Universidad de la República (Uruguay) and PhD in Astronomy Upssala University (Sweden). He is professor and Director at the Astronomy Department, Universidad de la República de Uruguay. Gonzalo was the president of the Planetary Systems and Astrobiology Division of the International Union of Astronomy (2018-2021) and president of the researchers association of Uruguay (2021-2023). His research interests are physics and dynamics of small bodies of the Solar System (asteroids, comets, meteors) and the cratering processes related to them. He was a member of the DART mission of NASA and leader of a project to develop a national network of cameras for meteors monitoring. He discovered several asteroids (Montevideo, Vaimaca and Guyunusa). As an acknowledgment, one asteroid was named after him (Tancredi). He is author of numerous research science and outreach articles. He was one of the proponents of the reclassification of Pluto as a "dwarf planet".