Probing black hole spacetimes through quasinormal modes, light rings and shadow images 
Zeus Sales Moreira
UFPA (Brazil) Ph.D. programme in Physics (2022-2025)
Advisor: C. Herdeiro
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Hairy black holes and bosonic stars: linear and non-linear solutions and their properties 
Nuno André Moreira Santos
Ph.D. degree in physics, IST (2020-2025)
Advisors: C. Herdeiro, N. Sanchis-Gual and David M. Hilditch
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Black holes and solitonic objects with bosonic fields 
Alexandre M. Pombo
MAP-Fis Ph.D. programme (2017-2022)
Advisors: C. Herdeiro and E. Radu
Spinning Black Holes with Scalar Hair and Horizonless Compact Objects within and beyond General Relativity
Jorge F. M. Delgado
MAP-Fis Ph.D. programme (2016-2022)
Advisors: C. Herdeiro and E. Radu
The Gravity of Classical Fields: and its effect on the dynamics of gravitational systems
Rodrigo Vicente
PDF-IST Ph.D. programme (2017-2021)
Advisors: V. Cardoso (IST-Lisbon) and C. Herdeiro
Aspects of Einstein-Maxwell-scalar models: Solitons, Duality and 
Scalarisation
João M. S. Oliveira
MAP-PDMA Ph.D. programme (2016-2020)
Advisors: C. Herdeiro and F. Mena (U. Minho and IST-Lisbon)
Shadows and gravitational lensing of Black Holes interacting with fundamental fields
Pedro V. P. Cunha
PDF-IST Ph.D. programme (2015-2019)
Advisors: V. Cardoso (IST-Lisbon) and C. Herdeiro
Kerr black holes with scalar and Proca hair
Helgi Rúnarsson
MAP-Fis Ph.D. programme (2014-2017)
Advisors: C. Herdeiro and E. Radu
Scalar fields in black hole spacetimes and analogues
Carolina L. Benone
UFPA (Brazil) Ph.D. programme in Physics (2014-2017)
Advisors: L. Crispino and C. Herdeiro
Quantum and classical aspects of scalar and vector fields around black holes
Mengjie Wang
MAP-Fis Ph.D. programme (2011-2016)
Advisors: C. Herdeiro and M. Sampaio
Radiation from a D-dimensional collision of shock waves
Flávio S. Coelho
MAP-Fis Ph.D. programme (2010-2015)
Advisor: C. Herdeiro
New frontiers in Numerical Relativity
Miguel Zilhão
MAP-Fis Ph.D. programme (2008-2012)
Advisors: C. Herdeiro and V. Cardoso (IST-Lisbon)