David Nesvorný was born in Czechia. He earned his degree from Charles University in Prague and completed his doctorate at the University of São Paulo in Brazil. He is currently a researcher at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Dr. Nesvorný specializes in the formation and dynamical evolution of planets and small bodies in the Solar System. He has developed a gravitational collapse theory that explains the high occurrence of equal-sized binary systems in the Kuiper Belt and has pioneered techniques to determine the formation ages of collisional families in the asteroid belt. More recently, he introduced a new physical model for the population of near-Earth asteroids.
Throughout his career, Dr. Nesvorný has received numerous honors, including the prestigious Urey Prize from the Planetary Science Division of the American Astronomical Society in 2005. He has co-authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications.
