Gr@v is a team of researchers, based at the Mathematics and Physics Department of Aveiro University, Portugal, working on strong gravity and high energy physics. The group was established in 2010. In January 2015 Gr@v integrated the FCT funded CIDMA research unit (UIDB/04106/2020 and UIDP/04106/2020), as the Gravitational Geometry and Dynamics research group. The group scientific coordinator is C. Herdeiro.
Pedro Fernandes, a student that graduated from IST-Lisbon, after doing his Master thesis under the supervision of C. Herdeiro and E. Radu on "Spontaneous Scalarization of Charged Black Holes" is moving to Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, where he obtained a scholarship for pursuing his Ph.D. studies. Congratulations Pedro!
Gr@v members had a lunch get together to bid Pedro Cunha farewell. Starting next week, Pedro will join the Max Planck institute for gravitational physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Germany, as a research fellow. And one of the best "Arroz de Tamboril" in the country will make sure Portugal and Aveiro will be missed! See you very soon Pedro!
Pedro Cunha defended his PhD thesis with title "Shadows and gravitational lensing of Black Holes interacting with fundamental fields" on September 9th 2019, at IST-Lisbon. The panel, composed by Prof. Volker Perlick, Frederic Vincent, José Natário, Carlos Herdeiro (advisor) and José Lemos (president) unanimously attributed the highest classification of Approved with Distinction and Honour to an outstanding piece of work. Congratulations Pedro!
Carlos A. R. Herdeiro, one of the founders of Gr@v, will rejoin the Aveiro University Gravity group as research chair (Investigador Coordenador de Carreira) from the academic year 2019/20, after one year at IST-Lisbon as Associate Professor.
Gr@v Ph.D. students Alexandre Pombo, João Oliveira and Jorge Delgado visited Belém, Brazil as members of the FunFiCO Marie Curie RISE project. Their visit coincided with the VII Amazonian Workshop on Gravity and analogue models, where they presented their work, and the Amazonian High Studies School in Theoretical Physics where they attended courses on Numerical Relativity and Gravitational Lensing.
The Marie Curie RISE project FunFiCO, led by Aveiro University, had its mid term meeting on July 13th 2019 in Valencia. It was a very successful assessment of all activities so far.
Current and former Gr@v members met at the 22nd International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (GR22) in Valencia, Spain. Great talks and great discussions!
The paper "Spontaneously Scalarized Kerr Black Holes in Extended Scalar-Tensor–Gauss-Bonnet Gravity" published in Physical Review Letters (PRL), authored by Gr@v members Pedro Cunha and Eugen Radu (co-authored by Carlos Herdeiro from IST-Lisbon), was selected to feature on the cover of the 3rd July 2019 issue of PRL.
In a paper published in Physical Review Letters, Gr@v researchers Pedro Cunha and Eugen Radu (in collaboration with Carlos Herdeiro from IST-Lisbon) provide a new insight on how spin could mask non-GR features in astrophysical black holes.
On May 29th 1919 Eddington and Cottingham measured the position of stars near the sun during a total eclipse observed at the island of Príncipe, off the west African coast. Their results, together with the ones of another expedition undertaken by Crommelin and Davidson to Sobral (Brazil), were announced on November 6th 1919 and confirmed the General Theory of Relativity. This openned a new era in our understanding of gravity, space, time and matter... and made Einstein world famous.