Josep M. Trigo is awarded the Joan Lluís Vives prize for his book ‘Asteroid Impact Risk’

The book, which was published as part of the popular science collection Catàlisi, explains how the scientific community is preparing to face the impact of potentially dangerous asteroids and how the study of impact craters and other evidences have allowed to deepen the knowledge of their effects on the past of our planet. The work to raise awareness of the risk of asteroid impact has favoured the development of programmes to discover and track these bodies based on new detectors: modern telescopes and space missions that make it possible to catalogue and study their nature.

The Joan Lluís Vives Awards are an initiative of the Vives Network which acknowledges university publishing in Catalan on the basis of interest, relevance and opportunity in the transmission of knowledge, the quality of publishing and the impact of publications in specialised journals and in the media.

The presentation of the 5th Joan Lluís Vives Awards for university publishing took place on Friday 14 July at the Universitat Jaume I, coinciding with the presentation of the 2023 Medal of Honour of the Vives Network of Universities. In the context of the upcoming Catalan Book Week (8 to 17 September 2023) a public event with the presence of the authors will be held on Tuesday 12 September, at 4:30 p.m., at the Moll de la Fusta, Barcelona.