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!
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!
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.
In the last year three Gr@v members obtained faculty positions (as Assistant Professors) in Portuguese Universities: António Morais (Physics Dept., U. Minho), Miguel Zilhão (Physics Dept., U. Aveiro), Pedro Cunha (Mathematics Dept., U. Aveiro). Congratulations to António, Miguel and Pedro for this great achievement!
The annual global study led by John Ioannidis (Stanford University, USA), based on Elsevier’s Scopus citation data for 2024, ranked the world’s most influential scientists. The list includes 3 from Gr@v: P. Cunha, C. Herdeiro and E. Radu. See here the U. Aveiro coverage.
Our group coordinated the "Numerical Relativity and High Energy Physics" IRSES network (2012-2015). Here is a list of the global network meetings organized:
