A call for a 1 year postdoctoral grant in Strong Gravity or High Energy Physics, to integrate the Gravitational Geometry and Dynamics Group within the CIDMA research Unit, is open from 5 to 20 April 2021. See attached document for details: call in Portuguese and English.
Starting from March 2022, C. Herdeiro was appointed member of the editorial board (associate editor) of the European Physical Journal C (EPJC), for the section "Theoretical Physics III: Quantum Field Theory and Gravity - Fundamental and Formal Aspects". EPJC is a leading international journal on this research topic with over 2M downloads in 2021 and an impact factor of 4.590 (2020). See UA coverage here.
Simulating collider physics on quantum computers using effective field theories
Pedro Ildefonso (M.Sc. IST 2021) and Marco Brito (M.Sc. U. Minho, 2021) joined our group as BI grant holders, starting from March 2021. Welcome!
I will present recent results on evolving black holes in general relativity. Approximate analytical solutions are obtained by expanding the Einstein field equations close to the trapping horizon for a dynamical spherically symmetric black hole in the presence of a minimally coupled self-interacting scalar field.
Nico Sanchis-Gual is moving back to Valencia (his alma mater) and we celebrated Nico's friendship and collaboration with the group with a farewell lunch. See you soon Nico!
The Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT) announced the 5th edition of the individual call to scientific employment stimulus, open from February 3rd 2022 to March 3rd 2022, for researchers with a Ph.D. and including four different seniority levels. Applications require the support of a host research unit. Researchers wishing to join our group should contact the group coordinator (C. Herdeiro).
Miguel Zilhão joins Gr@v from January 1st 2022 under a two-years research position. Miguel is an expert on strong gravity, in particular in numerical relativity, a technique he has applied in multiple contexts, ranging from astrophysics to AdS/CFT. He was a former Ph.D. student in Porto University and Gr@v (graduated in 2012) and since then has been a researcher at Rochester Institute of Technology (USA), University of Barcelona (Spain) and IST-Lisbon. Welcome Miguel!
Two Gr@v projects, one led by A. Morais and another by C. Herdeiro, were funded in the FCT-CERN IC&DT call for proposals. More info here.
The XIV Black Holes Workshop took place at the University of Aveiro, on 20-21 December 2021, organized by our group, gathering more than 80 researchers to discuss the (astro)physics and mathematics of black holes. It was really great to have a real face to face meeting, even if we could only take off the mask (momentarily) for the group photo. Thank you to all participants!