Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Luís Filipe de Pinho Oliveira e Costa
Citation names
- Costa, L. Filipe O.
- Costa, L. Filipe
- Costa, LFO
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 4912-11E3-3F87
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-5391-8606
- Researcher Id
- E-4071-2012
- Scopus Author Id
- 55885177400
Email addresses
- filipecosta@cmat.uminho.pt (Professional)
Websites
- https://sites.google.com/view/filipe-costa (Personal)
- https://cmat.uminho.pt/user/992 (Scholar)
Knowledge fields
- Exact Sciences - Physical Sciences
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2012/12
Concluded
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Física (Doctorate)
Major in Teoria da Relatividade Geral
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"General Relativity in the framework of exact gravito-electromagnetic analogies" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2018/11/01 - 2024/10/31 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
| Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal | ||
| 2013/05/01 - 2018/10/31 | Postdoc (Research) | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal |
| Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
Outputs
Publications
| Book chapter |
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| Conference paper |
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| Conference poster |
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| Journal article |
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Other
| Software |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2026/07/20 | Relatividade: o Universo a 4D | Verão no Campus 2026 - Explorando o Universo das Ciências
Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
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| 2026/05/18 | Como se movem (e envelhecem!) os corpos, segundo a teoria da relatividade de Einstein | Pint of Science Festival
Pint of Science Portugal (Braga, Portugal)
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| 2026/04 | Observar a curvatura do espaço-tempo através de um eclipse | O Espaço Vai à Escola - Versão Eclipse
ESERO - Portugal, E. S. Rainha D. Leonor (Lisboa), AE Vila Pouca de Aguiar (Vila
Real), AE Mundão (Viseu), ES Forte da Casa (Vila Franca de Xira), ES Gago Coutinho
(Alverca) (Lisboa, Vila Pouca de Aguiar, Viseu, Vila Franca de Xira, Alverca, Portugal)
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| 2026/03/03 | Relatividade: o Universo a 4D |
Escola Básica e Secundária de Vila Nova de Cerveira (Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal)
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| 2025/12/17 | Relatividade: o Universo a 4D | VEM - Vamos Experimentar a UMinho 2025 - Ciência, Computação e Dados
Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
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| 2025/10/28 | O que é a Gravidade? — Das forças de Newton ao Espaço-Tempo Curvo | O Espaço vai à Escola 2025
ESERO - Portugal, Escola Básica e Secundária Dr. Jaime Magalhães Lima, Esgueira (Aveiro, Portugal)
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| 2025/07/17 | Reference frames in general relativity and the galactic rotation curves | 24th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (GR24)
International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation (Glasgow, United Kingdom)
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| 2025/06/17 | Can relativistic effects explain galactic dynamics without the need for dark matter? | Cosmology From Home 2025 |
| 2025/04/04 | Espaço-Tempo: o Universo a 4 Dimensões | II Encontro Ciência e Espaço
Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
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| 2024/12/20 | Can relativistic effects explain galactic dynamics without the need for dark matter? | XVII Black Holes Workshop
University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
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| 2024/11/21 | Das Forças de Newton à Ideia mais Feliz de Einstein | Engenharia e Ciência vão à Escola
Escola Básica Conde de Oeiras
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| 2024/11/14 | Reference frames in General Relativity, gravitomagnetism, and the galactic missing mass problem | CMAT-GTA Seminar
Universidade do Minho (Portugal)
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| 2024/08/24 | Can relativistic effects explain galactic dynamics without dark matter? | Spanish and Portuguese Relativity Meeting (EREP 2024)
University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2023/12/20 | Reference frames in General Relativity and the galactic rotation curves | XVI Black Holes Workshop
Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2023/12/18 | Reference frames in general relativity, the galactic rotation curves, and on rigidly rotating dark matter clouds | Fundamental Physics at the Galactic Centre Workshop
Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2023/07/17 | Reference frames in General Relativity and the galactic rotation curves | Spanish and Portuguese Relativity Meeting 2023 (EREP2023)
Sociedad Española de Gravitación y Relatividad (SEGRE) (Bilbao, Spain)
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| 2022/12 | Novos desafios da Ciência | Jornadas de Ciência de Arouca 2022
Circulo Cultura e Democracia, CMA, ESA (Arouca, Portugal)
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| 2022/09 | Frame-dragging: meaning, myths, and misconceptions | Spanish and Portuguese Relativity Meeting 2022
Sociedad Española de Gravitación y Relatividad (SEGRE) e Sociedade Portuguesa de Relatividade
e Gravitação (SPRG) (Salamanca, Spain)
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| 2022/07 | Frame-dragging: meaning, myths, and misconceptions | 23rd International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (GR23)
The International Society on General Relativity & Gravitation (ISGRG) (Beijing, China)
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| 2021/12 | Frame-dragging: meaning, myths, and misconceptions | XIV Black Holes Workshop
Sociedade Portuguesa de Relatividade e Gravitação (SPRG) (Aveiro, Portugal)
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| 2021/09 | Gravitomagnetism in the Lewis cylindrical metrics | Spanish-Portuguese Relativity Meeting 2021 (EREP2021)
Sociedad Española de Gravitación y Relatividad (SEGRE) e Sociedade Portuguesa de Relatividade
e Gravitação (SPRG) (Aveiro, Portugal)
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| 2021/07 | Gravitomagnetism in the Lewis cylindrical metrics | sixteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting (MG16)
(Roma, Italy)
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| 2019/12 | Gravitomagnetism in the Lewis cylindrical metrics | XII Black Holes Workshop
Sociedade Portuguesa de Relatividade e Gravitação (SPRG) (Guimarães, Portugal)
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| 2019/07 | The gravitational Magnus effect | 22th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (GR22)
The International Society on General Relativity & Gravitation (ISGRG) (Valencia, Spain)
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| 2019/07 | Gravitomagnetism in the Lewis cylindrical metrics | 22th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (GR22)
The International Society on General Relativity & Gravitation (ISGRG) (Valencia, Spain)
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| 2019/02/19 | Teoria da Relatividade: o Universo a 4 Dimensões | Conferências da Gandaia
Clube Gandaia (Almada, Portugal)
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| 2018/11 | Conversas com Ciência | Fórum Arouca -- Inovação, empreendedorismo e conhecimento
CMA, Rede Scientiae (Arouca, Portugal)
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| 2017/09 | The gravitational Magnus effect | Spanish-Portuguese Relativity Meeting 2017 (EREP2017)
Sociedad Española de Gravitación y Relatividad (SEGRE) e Sociedade Portuguesa de Relatividade
e Gravitação (SPRG) (Malaga, Spain)
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| 2017/05 | The gravitational Magnus effect | Seminar at Centro de Física do Porto (CFP)
Centro de Física do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2016/12/16 | O movimento dos corpos segundo a Teoria da Relatividade Geral | II Jornadas de Ciência de Arouca
Circulo Cultura e Democracia, CMA, ESA (Arouca, Portugal)
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| 2016/09 | Gravitomagnetism and the significance of the curvature scalar invariants | Spanish-Portuguese Relativity Meeting 2016 (EREP2016)
Sociedad Española de Gravitación y Relatividad (SEGRE) e Sociedade Portuguesa de Relatividade
e Gravitação (SPRG) (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2015/12/18 | Teoria da Relatividade Geral | I Jornadas de Ciência de Arouca
Circulo Cultura e Democracia, CMA, ESA (Arouca, Portugal)
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| 2015/12 | Gravitomagnetism and the significance of the curvature scalar invariants | XVIII Black Holes Workshop
Sociedade Portuguesa de Relatividade e Gravitação (SPRG) (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2015/09 | Dynamics of extended test bodies in General Relativity -- the problem of the representative worldline | Spanish Relativity Meeting 2015 (ERE2015)
Sociedad Española de Gravitación y Relatividad (SEGRE) (Palma de Mallorca, Spain)
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| 2014/09 | Inertial forces in General Relativity | Spanish Relativity Meeting 2014 (ERE2014)
Sociedad Española de Gravitación y Relatividad (SEGRE) (Valencia, Spain)
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| 2014/04 | Dynamics of extended test bodies in General Relativity -- the problem of the representative worldline | Workshop “Current Topics in Exact Solutions”
Department of Mathematical Analysis, Gent University (Gent, Belgium)
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| 2014/02 | Dynamics of spinning test bodies in General Relativity -- the problem of the representative worldline | Centra Seminars
Centro Multidisciplinar de Astrofísica (CENTRA) (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2013/12/17 | Dynamics of spinning test bodies in general relativity -- center of mass, momentum, and the problem of the representative worldline | ITP Relativity Seminar, Charles University
Institute of Theoretical Physics (ITP), Charles University, Prague (Prague, Czech Republic)
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| 2013/02 | Spacetime dynamics of spinning particles -- exact gravito-electromagnetic analogies | 524. WE-Heraeus-Seminar “Equations of Motion in Relativistic Gravity”
Physikzentrum Bad Honnef (Bad Honnef, Germany)
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| 2012/09 | Hidden momentum in general relativity | Spanish Relativity Meeting 2012 (ERE2012)
Sociedad Española de Gravitación y Relatividad (SEGRE) (Guimarães, Portugal)
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| 2012/05/12 | Spacetime dynamics of spinning particles — exact gravito-electromagnetic analogies | CFP Journal Club
Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2012/02/21 | Spacetime dynamics of spinning particles -- exact gravito-electromagnetic analogies | Seminar at Department of Mathematical Analysis, Ghent University
Ghent University (Gent, Belgium)
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| 2011/09 | Mathisson's helical motions -- are they unphysical? | Spanish Relativity Meeting 2011 (ERE2011)
Sociedad Española de Gravitación y Relatividad (SEGRE) (Madrid, Spain)
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| 2010/09 | Gravitomagnetism and the significance of the curvature scalar invariants | Spanish Relativity Meeting 2010 (ERE2010)
Sociedad Española de Gravitación y Relatividad (SEGRE) (Granada, Spain)
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| 2010/07 | Spinning test particles in general relativity -- exact gravito-electromagnetic analogies | 19th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (GR19)
The International Society on General Relativity & Gravitation (ISGRG) (Mexico City, Mexico)
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| 2009/12 | Aspects of the motion of gyroscopes around Schwarzschild and Kerr black holes -- exact gravito-electromagnetic analogies | II Workshop on Black Holes
(Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2009/09 | The gravitational force on a gyroscope and the electromagnetic force on a magnetic dipole as analogous tidal effects | Spanish Relativity Meeting 2009 (ERE2009)
Sociedad Española de Gravitación y Relatividad (SEGRE) (Bilbao, Spain)
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| 2009/07 | A gravito-electromagnetic analogy based on tidal tensors | 12th Marcel Grossman Meeting
(Paris, France)
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| 2009/07 | Tidal tensor approach to gravitomagnetism | 1st LARES (Laser Relativity Satellite) Workshop
Sapienza (Roma, Italy)
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| 2009/07 | A gravito-electromagnetic analogy based on tidal tensors -- the physical meaning of the second order scalar invariants of the Riemann tensor | Invited (2-hour) Seminar at Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aerospaziale e Astronautica,
Sapienza
Sapienza Universita' di Roma (Roma, Italy)
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| 2009/06/16 | Determinismo vs incerteza: Deus joga aos dados? |
Centre of Biological Engineering, University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
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| 2009/05 | A gravito-electromagnetic analogy based on tidal tensors | VIII SIGRAV Graduate School in Contemporary Relativity and Gravitational Physics
(Como, Italy)
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| 2008/12/11 | A gravito-electromagnetic analogy based on tidal tensors | Seminar at Departamento de Matemática Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias Universidad de
Valladolid
Universidad de Valladolid (Valladolid, Spain)
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| 2008/12/04 | A gravito-electromagnetic analogy based on tidal tensors | Seminar at Centro Multidisciplinar de Astrofísica (CENTRA)
Centro Multidisciplinar de Astrofísica (CENTRA), Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2008/06 | A gravito-electromagnetic analogy based on tidal tensors | Seventh Alexander Friedmann International Seminar Gravitation and Cosmology
(João Pessoa, Brazil)
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Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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| 2016 - 2018/06/07 | Magnus effect in General Relativity
Co-supervisor
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Engenharia Física Tecnológica (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/09/26 - 2025/09/26 | Space "Teoria da Relatividade" at European Researchers' Night Braga (NEI 2025 Braga),
comprising the activities "A Relatividade do Tempo", "Gravidade é Geometria" and "Lentes
Gravitacionais" (2025/09/26 - 2025/09/26)
Exhibition (Co-organiser)
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Universidade do Minho, Portugal |
Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
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| 2015 - Current | Sociedad Española de Gravitación y Relatividad (SEGRE) | Member |
| 2015 - Current | Sociedade Portuguesa de Relatividade e Gravitação (SPRG) | Member |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2025/06/23 - 2025/06/27 | Astronomical Reference Systems in the framework of General Relativity | Astronomical Reference Systems in the framework of General Relativity (Postgraduate Certificate) | Lake Como School of Advanced Studies, Italy |
Journal scientific committee
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 - Current | Mathematical Reviews | American Mathematical Society |
| 2026 - Current | The Physics Teacher | American Institute of Physics (AIP) |
| 2025/01/27 - Current | Physical Review X | American Physical Society |
| 2024/01/26 - Current | Astronomische Nachrichten | Wiley |
| 2021 - Current | Physical Review D (1550-2368) | American Physical Society (APS) |
| 2020 - Current | Universe (2218-1997) | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) |
| 2016 - Current | The European Physical Journal C (1434-6052) | Springer-Nature |
| 2015 - Current | General Relativity and Gravitation (1572-9532) | Springer-Nature |
| 2012 - Current | Classical and quantum gravity (1361-6382) | Institute of Physics (IOP) |
Distinctions
Other distinction
| 2023 | Article "Reference frames in general relativity and the galactic rotation curves"
highlighted as an Editor's suggestion in the journal Physical Review D
American Physical Society, United States
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| 2022 | IOP Trusted Reviewer (Institute of Physics Publishing) |
| 2022 | IOP (Institute of Physics) Outstanding Reviewer for Classical and Quantum Gravity |
