Visit to Johns Hopkins
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”.
Cosmology
Cosmology is the study of the large scale structure of the Universe, as well as its dynamics. Our group has been involved in the study and development of cosmological models, in particular to explain the accelerated phases of the cosmological evolution, dubbed inflationary phases.
For our latest developments/activities in this area, please see the listing below.
Latest Cosmology News & Events
New group members
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!
CERN workshop
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.
Romain Gervalle
Position: Postdoctoral fellow
Two grants for M.Sc. holders
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.