The Higgs vacuum is a metastable state with lifetime longer than the age of the universe, but the vacuum can be destabilised by microscopic black hole seeds. The nucleation process is a nice example of black hole thermodynamics.
Alexandre Pombo successfully finished his Physics M.Sc. at Aveiro University, on October 10th 2017, by defending a thesis with title "Q-balls spectroscopy and construction of boson stars". This thesis was supervised by Gr@v researchers and examined by Prof. Yves Brihaye, from the University of Mons, Belgium. Well done Alexandre!
Helgi Rúnarsson successfully defended his PhD thesis "Kerr black holes with scalar and Proca hair". The exam took place at the University of Aveir, on October 9th 2017. The thesis was supervised by Gr@v members C. Herdeiro and E. Radu and former member J. C. Degollado, now at UNAM (Mexico). Congratulations Helgi!
Full Name: Jorge Filipe Mónico Delgado
Position: Junior Research Fellow (2022-23)
Degree: Ph.D in Physics, Aveiro University, 2022
Research area: Strong gravity; Black holes; Mathematical Physics
Office: 11.2.4, Mathematics Department, Aveiro University
Phone: +351 917 376 380
Email: jorgedelgado@ua.pt
Position: Long term research fellow - CEEC Junior research position (6 years)
Research Area: Strong Gravity
Office: 11.3.45, Dep. Mathematics, University of Aveiro
Full Name: Alexandre M. Pombo
Position: PostDoc at CEICO
Degree: PhD in Physics
Email: pomboalexandremira@ua.pt
ORCID: 0000-0002-5815-2758
Carolina Benone successfully defended her PhD thesis "Scalar fields in black hole spacetimes and analogues". The exam took place in U. Federal do Pará, in Belém, Brazil, on July 14th 2017. The thesis was supervised by Luis Crispino (UFPa) and Gr@v member C. Herdeiro. Congratulations Carolina!
Group members P. Cunha and C. Herdeiro were two of the participants in the "Strong Gravity Universe" workshop, in S. Miguel island, Azores. This meeting was co-sponsored by the GWVerse COST action and StronGrHEP RISE network.
