Experts

Evgeny is a researcher who thinks across boundaries — trained in mathematics and physics, drawn to the philosophical depths of psychology and the vast scales of celestial mechanics. His work lives at the intersections: asteroid dynamics and narrative identity, orbital resonances and existential coherence. Marginalia grew from his own way of reading science — holistically, curiously, across disciplines — and a conviction that the most important connections in the literature are the ones no algorithm will find for you.

Ivana Milić Žitnik is a research associate at the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade and serves as the chair of the Group for dynamics of planetary and stellar systems. She obtained her PhD in Astronomy from the University of Belgrade in 2018, with a dissertation titled "Numerical analysis of the dynamics of resonant asteroids under the influence of the Yarkovsky effect." Her primary research expertise lies in the orbital dynamics of main-belt asteroids and the Yarkovsky effect, with broader scientific interests in celestial mechanics, planetary science and astrometry.

Valerio Carruba is an Italian astrophysicist based in Brazil and an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at "Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), campus of Guaratinguetá. He earned a degree in Physics from Sapienza University of Rome in 1997 and a PhD in Astronomy from Cornell University in 2004. His research focuses on applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence in dynamical astronomy. Carruba has contributed extensively to the study of the main asteroid belt and computational methods in dynamical astronomy. An asteroid, (10741) Valeriocarruba, was named in his honor, and he received the international CELMEC prize for Innovative computational methods in Dynamical Astronomy. He is the main editors of the book "Machine Learning for Small Bodies in the Solar System" from Elsevier. He is a CNPq productivity fellow and an active referee for major journals and international research programs in planetary science.