Other News & Events

FCT announced a call for Ph.D. grants, from 1-31 March 2021. If you are looking for Ph.D. opportunities please contact the group coordinator to discuss a possible application.

C. Herdeiro was one of the invited speakers of the 740ths WEH Seminar "Experimental Tests and Signatures of Modified and Quantum Gravity", held from 1-5 Feb 2021. The talks of the meeting were recorded and are available here. The page is password protected.

FCT announced a call for research contracts for Ph.D. holders, from 29 January to 26 February 2021. If you are looking for a post-doctoral opportunity please contact the group coordinator to discuss a possible application.

The 2021 CIDMA meeting was held on January 21st 2021, online. Our group was represented by Felipe Freitas who discussed the applicability of machine learning techniques from particle physics and gravitational waves to medical applications. Watch here the talks of the 2021 CIDMA meeting.

Citation metrics are widely used and misused. A publicly available database of over 100,000 top-scientists, science-wide, (recently updated) provides standardized information on citations. Two Gr@v researchers, C. Herdeiro and E. Radu, are ranked amongst these top-scientists. The 2020 data can be fetched here and the 2019 paper can be found here.

As support material for highschool textbooks C. Herdeiro discussed with Professor Manuel Fiolhais how one can explain the concept of black hole for highschool students and the 2020 Nobel physics prize.