High energy physics involves the study of the fundamental building blocks of nature at the shortest distances. These are the fundamental particles that are described by quantum fields such as the Higgs field found at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Our group studies theories beyond the Standard Model of particle physics both from theoretical and phenomenological perspectives.
For our latest developments/activities in this area, please see the listing below.
When the bosonic sector of the electroweak theory is minimally coupled to General Relativity, magnetic Reissner-Nordström black holes become unstable below a critical horizon size.
On November 25, 1915, Einstein presented the field equations of General Relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences. A hundred and ten years later, we celebrate the remarkable progress of the field of strong gravity — its many achievements, the 15th anniversary of the Aveiro Gr@v group (est. 2010), and a decade since the first detection of gravitational waves. Click here for more details.
Celebrating Strong Gr@vity - One day workshop at the U. Aveiro
In November 2025 we had the great pleasure to host our friend and collaborator Prof. Luis Carlos Crispino, from UFPA, Brazil. Thank you for the visit and the great discussions!
Gr@v PhD student Manuel Mariano is visiting Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, US, for a month. There he presented a seminar entitled “There and back again: outspiralling motion in non-Kerr compact objects”.
Romain Gervalle (Ph.D. U. Tours, France, 2025) and TianXiang Ma (M.Sc, Lanzhou U., China, 2024) have joined our group in October 2025. Ana Bokulic (Ph.D. U. Zagreb, Croatia, 2024), already a group member, also renewed her group membership into 2026. Great to have you in the group!