Mikael Granvik

About me

I am an astronomer by training and my research focuses on small bodies such as asteroids and comets in the Solar System and beyond. In my research I combine observational data from ground-based and space-based telescopes with numerical modeling and experimental work in the laboratory to improve our understanding of small-body populations and individual small bodies as well as prepare for space missions to these bodies. I am the Head of the Asteroid Engineering Laboratory located on the Space Campus in Kiruna, and involved in a number of space missions such as ESA/Gaia, ESA/Hera, ESA/Euclid, ESA/Comet Interceptor, NASA/DART, and JAXA/DESTINY+. In the future, a significant part of the observational data relevant to my research will come from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, in the preparations of which I have been involved  since 2010.