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!
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.
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 Oct. 22nd 2025 we had the visit of João Dinis Álvares, who completed his M.Sc. at IST-Lisbon. João gave an interesting talk on the evolution of scalar fields around black holes and also shared with us that he decided to study physics after an outreach talk by Gr@v members, in Braga, back in 2017. Thank you João, for the kind words and all the best for your Ph.D. abroad!
Our group coordinated the "Numerical Relativity and High Energy Physics" IRSES network (2012-2015). Here is a list of the global network meetings organized:
