Full Name: Carlos A. R. Herdeiro
Position: Assistant Professor - Physics Department, Aveiro University
Degrees:
- Porto University, 1996, "Licenciatura" (B.Sc.) in Physics/Applied Mathematics;
- Cambridge University, 1997, M.Sc., Certificate of Advanced Studies in Mathematics;
- Cambridge University, 2001, Ph.D. - Gravitational and High Energy Physics;
- Aveiro University, 2012, "Agregação" (Habilitation) in Physics.
Office: 13.3.314 - Departamento de Fisica - UA
Phone: 234378102
Email: herdeiro (at) ua.pt
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Previous Positions:
- Stanford University, Physics Department, 2001-2002, Post-doctoral Researcher
- Porto University, Physics Department, 2002-2006, Post-doctoral Researcher
- Porto University, Physics Department, 2006-2008, Assistant Professor
- Porto University, Physics Department, 2008-2010. Assistant Researcher (Ciência 2007)
- Aveiro University, Physics Department, 2010-present, Assistant Professor
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Teaching
- Quantum Mechanics I and II (2003/2004-2007/2008) - Coordinator, Porto University
- General Relativity (2006/2007 -2009/2010) - Coordinator, Porto University
- Classical Mechanics (2010/2011-2012/2013) - Coordinator, Aveiro University
- Mechanics and Electromagnetic Field (2010/2011-2012/2013) - Coordinator, Aveiro University; Course content: video recorded lectures and notes (in Portuguese).
- Physics Elements (2010/11 - 2012/13) - Aveiro University
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Ph.D. Students
Graduated:
- Maria Carmen Amaral Rebelo
Thesis: "Physical Aspects of Stationary Black Hole Binaries", Porto University, 2010
- Miguel Rodrigues Zilhão Nogueira
Thesis: "New Frontiers in Numerical Relativity", Porto/Aveiro University, 2012
- Luis Filipe Pinho Oliveira e Costa
Thesis: "General Relativity in the framework of exact gravito-electromagnetic analogies", Porto University, 2012
Ongoing:
- Flávio de Sousa Coelho
- Mengjie Wang
- Jaime Cardoso Filho
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Science Popularisation (some material I have produced available on-line)
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- Watch here my talk at TEDx Aveiro (2012 - in Portuguese)
- Listen to my chronicles "Horizonte Aparente" in the Click show of Antena 1 - National Portuguese Radio (2012 - in Portuguese)
* On gravitational radiation (19 May 2012; from 06'38'')
* On the Higgs boson (22 September 2012)
* On Schrodinger's cat and the Physics Nobel Prize 2012 (24 Novembro 2012)
* On Graphene and the friday night experiments club (16 February 2013)
- Read here my interview in the "Researcher of the Month" initiative of Aveiro University
- Read here a text on Cosmology published in Gazeta de Física (2005 - in Portuguese)
- Read here a text on Nanotechnology (2008 - in Portuguese)
- Read here a text on Colliding Black Holes (co-authored by Vitor Cardoso) published in Gazeta de Física (pag. 8-11; 2008 - in Portuguese)
- Read here a text on the 60 years of the Casimir Force published in Gazeta de Física (2008 - in Portuguese)
- Read here an interview with Professor Francis Everitt on the Gravity Probe B mission, published in Gazeta da Física (2008 - in English)
- Read here a text on Graphene published in Gazeta da Física (2008 - in Portuguese)
- Read here a text on the (likely) finding of the Higgs boson (2012 - in Portuguese)
- Read here an (old) text on String Theory and my drawing of the M-theory planet (1998 - In English)
- Read here an (old) interview I gave to SAdeBolso (Circa 2002 - in Portuguese)
- Read here a contribution to revista "Mais Educativa" on why become a Physicists and why choose Universidade de Aveiro (2012 - in Portuguese)