Funding and Research Projects

This is a (partial) list of the grants that have funded the group. Individual research positions, post-doctoral fellowships or doctoral grants are not included in this list.

 

Project type: Scientific Research and Technological Development Projects in all Scientific Domains — 2022 (FCT)
Project reference: 2022.04560.PTDC
Project title: "Ondas gravitacionais, buracos negros, e física fundamental"
PI: Miguel Zilhão
Co-PI: Carlos Herdeiro
Principal Contractor and Host institution: Aveiro University
Starting date and duration: 1/1/2023 - 36 months

 

Project type: Marie Sklodowska-Curie Horizon Europe Staff Exchange (SE) programme
Project reference: HORIZON-MSCA-2021-SE-01-101086251
Action acronym and title: NewFunFiCO - "Fundamental Fields and Compact Objects - New Opportunities"
Action Coordinator: Carlos Herdeiro;
Coordinating Node: Aveiro University
Other Nodes Coordinators: Luis Carlos Bassalo Crispino (Belém - Brazil); Luciano Rezzolla (Frankfurt - Germany); Juan Calderon Bustillo (Hong Kong - China); Juan Carlos Degollado Daza (Mexico City - Mexico); Jose Antonio Font (Valencia - Spain)
Starting date and duration: 1/1/2023 - 48 months

 

Project type: Collaboration between Portugal and CERN 2021
Project reference: CERN/FIS-PAR/0024/2021
Project title: "Gravitational Waves and black holes as ultralight dark matter particle detectors"
PI: Carlos Herdeiro
Co-PI: Nicolas Sanchis-Gual
Principal Contractor and Host institution: Aveiro University
Starting date and duration: 1/7/2022 - 24 months

 

Project type: Collaboration between Portugal and CERN 2021
Project reference: CERN/FIS-PAR/0021/2021
Project title: "Ecos de Unificação Completa em experiências de colisão e de ondas gravitacionais com aprendizagem profunda"
PI: António P. Morais
Co-PI: Felipe Freitas
Principal Contractor and Host institution: Aveiro University
Starting date and duration: 1/11/2022 - 24 months

 

Project type: Scientific Research and Technological Development Projects in all Scientific Domains — 2020 (FCT)
Project reference: PTDC/FIS-AST/2041/2020
Project title: "Testando a hipótese de Kerr com ondas e lentes gravitacionais"
PI: Carlos Herdeiro
Co-PI: Eugen Radu
Principal Contractor and Host institution: Aveiro University
Starting date and duration: 1/3/2021 - 36 months

 

Project type: Collaboration between Portugal and CERN 2019
Project reference: CERN/FIS-PAR/0027/2019
Project title: "Ultralight dark matter particles, black hole shadows and gravitational waves"
PI: Carlos Herdeiro
Co-PIs: Eugen Radu and António Morais
Principal Contractor and Host institution: Aveiro University
Starting date and duration: 1/7/2020 - 24 months

 

Project type: Strategic Project UI - 2020 - 2023
Project reference: UIDP/04106/2020 - Programático and UIDB/04106/2020 - Base
Principal Contractor and Host institution: CIDMA;
Starting date and duration: 1/1/2020 - 48 months

 

Project type: Acordo de cooperação científica e tecnológica entre o MCTES e o Imamat Ismaili
Project reference: DOPPLER
Project title: "DevelOpment of PaloP knowLEdge in Radioastronomy"
PI: Valério A. R. M Ribeiro
Principal Contractor and Host institution: Aveiro University
Starting date and duration: 28/8/2018 - 36 months

 

Project type: Scientific Research and Technological Development Projects in all Scientific Domains — 2017 (FCT)
Project reference: PTDC/FIS-OUT/28407/2017
Project title: "Campos fundamentais e objetos compactos: teoria e fenomenologia astrofísica"
PI: Carlos Herdeiro
Co-PI: Eugen Radu
Principal Contractor and Host institution: Aveiro University (application) and IST-ID (execution)
Starting date and duration: 15/9/2018 - 36+12 months

 

Project type: Scientific Research and Technological Development Projects in all Scientific Domains — 2017 (FCT)
Project reference: PTDC/FIS-PAR/31000/2017
Project title: "Da Fenomenologia do Higgs à Unificação das interações fundamentais"
PI: António P. Morais
Co-PI: Marco Sampaio
Principal Contractor and Host institution: Aveiro University
Starting date and duration: 1/11/2018 - 36+12 months

 

Project type: Scientific Research and Technological Development Projects in all Scientific Domains — 2017 (FCT)
Project reference: PTDC/FIS-AST/29932/2017
Project title: "Origem, composição, evolução e exploração de Phobos"
PI: Alexandre M. Correia
Principal Contractor and Host institution: Aveiro University
Starting date and duration: 1/7/2018 - 36 months

 

Project type: Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) programme
Project reference: HORIZON-MSCA-RISE-2017-777740-FunFiCO
Action acronym and title: FunFiCO - "Fundamental Fields and Compact Objects"
Action Coordinator: Carlos Herdeiro;
Coordinating Node: Aveiro University
Other Nodes Coordinators: Luis Carlos Bassalo Crispino (Belém - Brazil); Juan Carlos Degollado Daza (Mexico City - Mexico); Jose Antonio Font (Valencia - Spain); Sam Dolan (Sheffield - UK)
Starting date and duration: 1/12/2017 - 48+25 months

 

Project type: Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) programme
Project reference: H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015-690904-StronGrHEP
Action acronym and title: StronGrHEP - "Strong Gravity and High Energy Physics"
Action Coordinator: Ulrich Sperhake;
Coordinating Node: Cambridge University
Other Nodes Coordinators: Enrico Barausse (Paris - France); Emanuele Berti (Mississippi - EUA); Vitor Cardoso (IST - Portugal); Leonardo Gualtieri (Rome - Italy); Carlos Herdeiro (Aveiro - Portugal); Akihiro Ishibashi (Osaka - Japan); Luis Lehner (Perimeter Institute - Canada) 
Starting date and duration: 1/1/2016 - 48 months

 

Project type: Gulbenkian Foundation programme to stimulate research 2015
Project title: "Black hole shadows"
PI: Pedro V. P. Cunha
Principal Contractor and Host institution: Aveiro University
Starting date and duration: 1/1/2016 - 12 months

 

Project type: Strategic Project UI - 2013 - 2015
Project reference: UID/MAT/04106/2013
Principal Contractor and Host institution: CIDMA;
Starting date and duration: 1/1/2013 - 60 months

 

Project type: Gulbenkian Foundation programme to stimulate research 2012
Project title: "The University as a Laboratory for fundamental physics: Einstein's General Relativity and beyond"
PI: Flávio Coelho
Principal Contractor and Host institution: Aveiro University
Starting date and duration: 1/1/2013 - 12 months

 

Project type: Marie Curie Action IRSES (International Research Staff Exchange Scheme), FP7-PEOPLE-IRSES-2011, Funded by the European Commission, CORDIS 
Project reference: PIRSES-GA-2011-295189
Action acronym and title: NRHEP - "Numerical Relativity and High Energy Physics"
Action Coordinator: Carlos Herdeiro;
Coordinating Node: Aveiro University
Other Nodes Coordinators: Emanuele Berti (Mississippi - EUA); Vitor Cardoso (IST - Portugal); Luis Carlos Crispino (Pará - Brazil); Leonardo Gualtieri (Rome - Italy); Ulrich Sperhake (CSIC - Barcelona - Spain) 
Starting date and duration: 1/1/2012 - 48 months

 

Project type: Scientific Research and Technological Development Projects in all Scientific Domains — 2010 (FCT)
Project reference: PTDC/FIS/116625/2010
Project title: "Numerical Relativity and LHC phenomenology"
Overall Rating: Excellent
PI: Carlos Herdeiro
Principal Contractor and Host institution: Aveiro University
Starting date and duration: 1/3/2012 - 36 months

 

Project type: Research and Development Projects in the framework of the cooperation agreement between Portugal (through FCT) and the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) — 2010
Project reference: CERN/FP/116341/2010
Project title: "Numerical relativity, black holes and high energy physics"
Overall Rating: Excellent
PI: Carlos Herdeiro
Principal Contractor and Host institution: Aveiro University
Starting date and duration: 30/1/2011 - 12 months

 

Project type: Scientific Research and Technological Development Projects in all Scientific Domains — 2008 (FCT)
Project reference: PTDC/FIS/098962/2008
Project title: "Phenomenology of Gravitational Events in LHC and black hole entropy"
Overall Rating: Excellent
PI: José Sande Lemos
Principal Contractor and Host institution: Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/UTL);
Participating Institutions: Aveiro University (PI at Aveiro: Carlos Herdeiro)
Starting date and duration: 1/3/2010 - 36 months

 

Project type: Strategic Project UI 44 - 2011 - 2012
Project reference: PEst-C/CTM/LA0025/2011
Principal Contractor and Host institution: I3N Laboratory;
Starting date and duration: 1/1/2011 - 24 months