Jorge A. Pérez Hernández

Jorge joined the MPC in June 2025 as an Astronomer. His research interests include non-gravitational accelerations and high-fidelity orbit determination of near-Earth objects, initial orbit determination, impact monitoring for potentially hazardous asteroids, nonlinear uncertainty quantification, and applications of high-order automatic differentiation to the orbit determination problem. He received a B.Sc. (Physics) from Morelos State University (Mexico) , and M.Sc. (Physics) and PhD (Physics) degrees from Mexico National Autonomous University (UNAM). His PhD dissertation title was "On the Dynamics of Near-Earth Objects: the Yarkovsky Effect for Asteroid Apophis and the Lyapunov Spectrum of Halley’s Comet". During 2021 Jorge was a Researcher for NASA Frontier Development Lab, applying deep learning models to problems in space sciences. From 2023 to 2025, he worked at ESA’s European Space Operations Center as an Interplanetary Flight Dynamics Engineer in Darmstadt (Germany), where he supported science operations for Solar Orbiter, launch operations for Euclid, and optical navigation operations for Hera.

PhD (Physics), Mexico National Autonomous University (UNAM, Mexico)