Pedro Ildefonso
Full Name: Pedro Ildefonso
Position: BI grant holder
Degrees: B.Sc in Physics, U. Aveiro (2019); M.Sc. in Physics Engineering, IST-Lisbon (2021)
Research area: Strong gravity; Black holes; Mathematical Physics
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Full Name: Pedro Ildefonso
Position: BI grant holder
Degrees: B.Sc in Physics, U. Aveiro (2019); M.Sc. in Physics Engineering, IST-Lisbon (2021)
Research area: Strong gravity; Black holes; Mathematical Physics
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Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are by far the most extensively studied class of cold dark matter (CDM) as the correct dark matter abundance is easily reproduced with cross sections around the weak scale. They have been extensively searched for by many experiments (direct and indirect detection, and colliders) with no success.
Jorge Delgado successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis, entitled "Spinning Black holes with scalar hair and horizonless compact objects within and beyond General Relativity" on March 24 2022. The Ph.D. committee included José Pedro (President, UA), Betti Hartmann (UCL), Yasha Shnir (JINR), Luis Crispino (UFPA), Lara Sousa (IA, UP) and Carlos Herdeiro (UA, advisor). The thesis was co-advised by Eugen Radu. Congratulations Jorge!
Gr@v made an appearance in Portuguese National TV, in the show UAU, "Science without limits", co-produced by RTP and the University of Aveiro. Episode 14 was devoted to space, and our group talked about gravitational waves and the possibility they can give us information on dark matter, based on this article.
A call for a 1 year postdoctoral grant in Strong Gravity or High Energy Physics, to integrate the Gravitational Geometry and Dynamics Group within the CIDMA research Unit, is open from 5 to 20 April 2021. See attached document for details: call in Portuguese and English.
Starting from March 2022, C. Herdeiro was appointed member of the editorial board (associate editor) of the European Physical Journal C (EPJC), for the section "Theoretical Physics III: Quantum Field Theory and Gravity - Fundamental and Formal Aspects". EPJC is a leading international journal on this research topic with over 2M downloads in 2021 and an impact factor of 4.590 (2020). See UA coverage here.
Simulating collider physics on quantum computers using effective field theories
Pedro Ildefonso (M.Sc. IST 2021) and Marco Brito (M.Sc. U. Minho, 2021) joined our group as BI grant holders, starting from March 2021. Welcome!
I will present recent results on evolving black holes in general relativity. Approximate analytical solutions are obtained by expanding the Einstein field equations close to the trapping horizon for a dynamical spherically symmetric black hole in the presence of a minimally coupled self-interacting scalar field.
Nico Sanchis-Gual is moving back to Valencia (his alma mater) and we celebrated Nico's friendship and collaboration with the group with a farewell lunch. See you soon Nico!