25-11-25 was a wonderful day of celebration of past achievements, present efforts, and future horizons. It was a true joy to see so many colleagues, collaborators, and friends—who have shaped, and continue to shape, the history, present, and future of Gr@v, gathered both online and onsite. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the first fifteen years of Gr@v during this remarkable era of strong-gravity research. We look forward to the next fifteen years!
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!
Etevaldo Costa Filho visited the historic Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen to collaborate with Rodrigo Panosso Macedo. Cold weather but hot physics in Copenhagen!
The NewFunFiCO network co-organized the XV School of the Division of Gravitation and Mathematical Physics of the Mexican physics society, that took place in Cancun, Mexico, in the first week of November 2025. Wonderful talks and scientific discussions in a wonderful venue!
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!
On Thursday Oct 23rd, CERN organizes a topical meeting on "New Bosons from Astrophysical sources @ LHC: the case of boson stars". C. Herdeiro is one of the invited speakers.
Two 3-month grants for M.Sc. holders are open within the project 2024.05617.CERN, "Towards precision tests of ultralight dark matter with imaging and gravitational waves". Applications should be submitted between 13 and 24 October 2025. More info in the attached files and the Euraxess site.