On 9 January, João Pino Gonçalves, a collaborator of CIDMA’s GGD group, successfully defended his PhD thesis, "Gravitational and collider observables in BSM models." The jury was composed of José Pedro (University of Aveiro), Margarete Mühlleitner (KIT), Matthew McCullough (CERN), Liliana Apolinário (LIP and IST), Miguel Zilhão (CIDMA and University of Aveiro) and the supervisor António Morais (LIP and University of Minho). Congratulations, João!