Carlos Herdeiro, Gr@v member and founder, took office on 1 October as the new Scientific Coordinator of CIDMA, beginning a four-year term. The new coordination team also includes Natália da Costa Martins, Maria Elisa Carrancho Fernandes, and Nelson Filipe Loureiro Vieira. UA News coverage here. We wish the team every success in this new chapter.
A recently published paper by Gr@v (J. Ferreira et al. [PRD 114 (2026) 064005]) was covered by Science Alert. Read the news piece here.
We present an Ernst-like formalism for stationary and axisymmetric Einstein–Maxwell/ModMax gravity coupled to a scalar field. The Maxwell sector is recovered as a particular limit of the ModMax theory, allowing both theories to be studied within the same framework.
Gr@v member Héctor Olivares has been awarded a Mexican Diaspora Research Chair ("Cátedras de la Diáspora Mexicana"), a grant supporting Mexican researchers living abroad who wish to maintain academic links with Mexico. The initiative provides annual mobility support for research, teaching, and academic training activities at Mexican higher education institutions and public research centers.
On 16 September 2026, Gr@v resumed its scientific activities with the first Journal Club of the new term. We are delighted to welcome several visitors to the group, including Alvaro Salazar (Valladolid, Spain), Kelvin Alves (UNESP, Brazil), Flavio Rosales Infante (UMSNH, Mexico), and Razieh Ranjbar (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Iran). We are also very happy to welcome our new PhD student, Yusheng He, who joins us after graduating in China. It is great to see the group growing and our scientific activities getting underway again.
The II Workshop on Fundamental Fields and Compact Objects, integrated in the NewFunFiCO network, will be held in person at the Institute of Physical Sciences, UNAM-Morelos, Mexico, 17–19 November 2026. More info here.
The XIX edition of the Black Holes Workshop will take place at the University of Minho, on 17-18 December 2026. More info here.