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Filipe Costa is a researcher at CMAT–Universidade do Minho, working in Mathematical Physics–General Relativity. He obtained his PhD on Physics (General Relativity) at the University of Porto in 2012, and then joined CAMGSD–Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, first as a postdoctoral FCT fellow (2013-2018), and subsequently as a contracted researcher (2018-2024), before joining CMAT in January 2025. His research focuses on the problem of motion in general relativity, particularly in the gravitational field produced by moving matter ("gravitomagnetism"), and the equations of motion for extended spinning bodies in an external field. He has published 16 articles in peer reviewed journals (one of them highlighted by Physical Review D), and one bookchapter. He has given numerous seminars and talks in international conferences (several as an invited speaker). He regularly serves as a referee for leading journals in gravitation and general relativity (counting over 30 reviews to date), having been awarded the Outstanding Reviewer Award by IOP in 2022, for his work with the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity.
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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

  • lfilipecosta@tecnico.ulisboa.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Physical Sciences
Education
Degree Classification
2012/12
Concluded
 Física (Doutoramento)
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)
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
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
  1. Costa, L. Filipe O.; José Natário. Corresponding author: Costa, L. Filipe O.. "Center of mass, spin supplementary conditions, and the momentum of spinning particles". 215-258. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2015.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-319-18335-0_6
Conference paper
  1. Costa, L. Filipe O.; José Natário; N. O. Santos. Corresponding author: Costa, L. Filipe O.. "Spinning cylinders in general relativity: A canonical form for the Lewis metrics of the Weyl class". 2023.
    10.1142/9789811269776_0332
  2. Costa, L. Filipe O.; Natário, Jos. Corresponding author: Costa, L. Filipe O.. "Inertial forces in General Relativity". 2015.
    10.1088/1742-6596/600/1/012053
  3. Costa, L. Filipe O.. Corresponding author: Costa, L. Filipe O.. "Hidden Momentum in the Framework of Gravitoelectromagnetism". 2014.
    10.1007/978-3-642-40157-2_26
  4. Costa, L. Filipe O.; Natário, J.; Zilhão, M.. Corresponding author: Costa, L. Filipe O.. "Mathisson's helical motions demystified". 2011.
    10.1063/1.4734436
  5. Costa, L. Filipe O.; Herdeiro, C.A.R.; Wylleman, L.. Corresponding author: Costa, L. Filipe O.. "Electromagnetic and gravitational invariants". Paper presented in Spanish Relativity Meeting 2010 (ERE2010), Granada, 2010.
    Published • 10.1088/1742-6596/314/1/012072
  6. Costa, L. Filipe O.; Herdeiro, C.A.R.. Corresponding author: Costa, L. Filipe O.. "The gravitational force on a gyroscope and the electromagnetic force on a magnetic dipole as analogous tidal effects". Bilbao, 2009.
    Published • 10.1088/1742-6596/229/1/012031
  7. Costa, L. Filipe O.; Herdeiro, C.A.R.. Corresponding author: Costa, L. Filipe O.. "Analogy between general relativity and electromagnetism based on tidal tensors". Paris, 2009.
    Published • 10.1142/9789814374552_0337
Conference poster
  1. Costa, L. Filipe O.; Herdeiro, Carlos. Corresponding author: Costa, L. Filipe O.. "Reference frames and the physical gravito-electromagnetic analogy". Paper presented in IAU (International Astronomical Union) Symposium 261, 2009.
  2. Costa, L. Filipe O.. Corresponding author: Costa, L. Filipe O.. "A gravito-electromagnetic analogy based on tidal tensors". Paper presented in Spanish Relativity Meeting 2008 (ERE2008), 2008.
Journal article
  1. Costa, L. Filipe O.; Natário, José. Corresponding author: Costa, L. Filipe O.. "Relativistic effects cannot explain galactic dynamics". Physical Review D 110 6 (2024): 064056. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.110.064056.
    Published • 10.1103/physrevd.110.064056
  2. Costa, L. Filipe O.; Frutos-Alfaro, F.; Natário, J.; Soffel, Michael. Corresponding author: Costa, L. Filipe O.. "Comment on "The Tully-Fisher law and dark matter effects derived via modified symmetries" by I. Arraut". Europhysics Letters 146 1 (2024): 19002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/ad2728.
    Published • 10.1209/0295-5075/ad2728
  3. Costa, L. Filipe O.; Natário, José; Frutos-Alfaro, F.; Soffel, Michael. Corresponding author: Costa, L. Filipe O.. "Reference frames in general relativity and the galactic rotation curves". Physical Review D 108 4 (2023): 044056. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.108.044056.
    10.1103/physrevd.108.044056
  4. Costa, L. Filipe O.; José Natário. Corresponding author: Costa, L. Filipe O.. "Frame-Dragging: Meaning, Myths, and Misconceptions". Universe (2021): https://inspirehep.net/literature/1935836.
    10.3390/universe7100388
  5. Lode Wylleman; Costa, L. Filipe O.; José Natário. "Poynting vector, super-Poynting vector, and principal observers in electromagnetism and general relativity". Classical and Quantum Gravity 38 (2021): 165009. https://inspirehep.net/literature/1809465.
    10.1088/1361-6382/abfd93
  6. Costa, L. Filipe O.; José Natário; N O Santos. Corresponding author: Costa, L. Filipe O.. "Gravitomagnetism in the Lewis cylindrical metrics". Classical and Quantum Gravity 38 (2021): 055003. https://inspirehep.net/literature/1771895.
    10.1088/1361-6382/abc570
  7. Costa, L. Filipe O.; Wylleman, Lode; Natário, José. Corresponding author: Costa, L. Filipe O.. "Gravitomagnetism and the significance of the curvature scalar invariants". Phys.Rev.D 104 (2021): 084081-084081. http://inspirehep.net/record/1426994.
    10.1103/PhysRevD.104.084081
  8. Costa, L. Filipe O.; Lukes-Gerakopoulos, Georgios; Semerák, Oldrich. Corresponding author: Costa, L. Filipe O.. "Spinning particles in general relativity: Momentum-velocity relation for the Mathisson-Pirani spin condition". Phys.Rev.D 97 8 (2018): 084023-084023. http://inspirehep.net/record/1644347.
    10.1103/PhysRevD.97.084023
  9. Costa, L. Filipe O.; Franco, R.; Cardoso, V.. Corresponding author: Costa, L. Filipe O.. "Gravitational Magnus effect". Physical Review D 98 2 (2018): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85051111996&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1103/PhysRevD.98.024026
  10. Costa, L. Filipe O.; Jose Natario; Miguel Zilhao. Corresponding author: Costa, L. Filipe O.. "Spacetime dynamics of spinning particles: Exact electromagnetic analogies". Phys.Rev.D 93 10 (2016): 104006-104006. http://inspirehep.net/record/1120729.
    10.1103/PhysRevD.93.104006
  11. Costa, L. Filipe O.; Natário, J.. "The Coriolis field". American Journal of Physics 84 5 (2016): 388-395. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84964998629&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1119/1.4938056
  12. Costa, L. Filipe O.; Natario, Jose. Corresponding author: Costa, L. Filipe O.. "Gravito-electromagnetic analogies". Gen.Rel.Grav. 46 (2014): 1792-1792. http://inspirehep.net/record/1120728.
    10.1007/s10714-014-1792-1
  13. Costa, L. Filipe O.; Herdeiro, C.; Natário, J.; Zilhão, M.. Corresponding author: Costa, L. Filipe O.. "Mathisson's helical motions for a spinning particle: Are they unphysical?". Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 85 2 (2012): https://inspirehep.net/literature/926570.
    10.1103/PhysRevD.85.024001
  14. Costa, L. Filipe O.; Herdeiro, C.A.R.. Corresponding author: Costa, L. Filipe O.. "Reference frames and the physical gravito-electromagnetic analogy". 5 (2010): https://inspirehep.net/literature/839770.
    Published • 10.1017/S1743921309990111
  15. Costa, L. Filipe O.; Herdeiro, C.A.R.. Corresponding author: Costa, L. Filipe O.. "Tidal tensor approach to gravitoelectromagnetism". International Journal of Modern Physics A 24 8-9 (2009): 1695-1699. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-65249138788&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1142/S0217751X0904525X
  16. Costa, L. Filipe O.; Herdeiro, C.A.R.. "Gravitoelectromagnetic analogy based on tidal tensors". Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 78 2 (2008): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-47649093701&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1103/PhysRevD.78.024021
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/12/20 Can relativistic effects explain galactic dynamics without the need for dark matter? XVII Black Holes Workshop
University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2024/11/14 Reference frames in General Relativity, gravitomagnetism, and the galactic missing mass problem CMAT-GTA Seminar
Universidade do Minho (Portugal)
2024/08/24 Can relativistic effects explain galactic dynamics without dark matter? Spanish and Portuguese Relativity Meeting (EREP 2024)
University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
2021/12 Frame-dragging: meaning, myths, and misconceptions XIV Black Holes Workshop
Sociedade Portuguesa de Relatividade e Gravitação (SPRG) (Aveiro, Portugal)
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)
2021/07 Gravitomagnetism in the Lewis cylindrical metrics sixteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting (MG16)
(Roma, Italy)
2019/12 Gravitomagnetism in the Lewis cylindrical metrics XII Black Holes Workshop
Sociedade Portuguesa de Relatividade e Gravitação (SPRG) (Guimarães, Portugal)
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)
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)
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)
2017/05 The gravitational Magnus effect Seminar at Centro de Física do Porto (CFP)
Centro de Física do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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)
2015/12 Gravitomagnetism and the significance of the curvature scalar invariants XVIII Black Holes Workshop
Sociedade Portuguesa de Relatividade e Gravitação (SPRG) (Lisboa, Portugal)
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)
2014/09 Inertial forces in General Relativity Spanish Relativity Meeting 2014 (ERE2014)
Sociedad Española de Gravitación y Relatividad (SEGRE) (Valencia, Spain)
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)
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)
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)
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)
2012/09 Hidden momentum in general relativity Spanish Relativity Meeting 2012 (ERE2012)
Sociedad Española de Gravitación y Relatividad (SEGRE) (Guimarães, Portugal)
2012/05/12 Spacetime dynamics of spinning particles — exact gravito-electromagnetic analogies CFP Journal Club
Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2012/02/21 Spacetime dynamics of spinning particles -- exact gravito-electromagnetic analogies Seminar at Department of Mathematical Analysis, Ghent University
Ghent University (Gent, Belgium)
2011/09 Mathisson's helical motions -- are they unphysical? Spanish Relativity Meeting 2011 (ERE2011)
Sociedad Española de Gravitación y Relatividad (SEGRE) (Madrid, Spain)
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)
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)
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)
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)
2009/07 A gravito-electromagnetic analogy based on tidal tensors 12th Marcel Grossman Meeting
(Paris, France)
2009/07 Tidal tensor approach to gravitomagnetism 1st LARES (Laser Relativity Satellite) Workshop
Sapienza (Roma, Italy)
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)
2009/05 A gravito-electromagnetic analogy based on tidal tensors VIII SIGRAV Graduate School in Contemporary Relativity and Gravitational Physics
(Como, Italy)
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)
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)
2008/06 A gravito-electromagnetic analogy based on tidal tensors Seventh Alexander Friedmann International Seminar Gravitation and Cosmology
(João Pessoa, Brazil)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2016 - 2018/06/07 Magnus effect in General Relativity
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Física Tecnológica (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2015 - Current Sociedad Española de Gravitación y Relatividad (SEGRE) Member
2015 - Current Sociedade Portuguesa de Relatividade e Gravitação (SPRG) Member

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
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
2022 IOP Trusted Reviewer (Institute of Physics Publishing)
2022 IOP (Institute of Physics) Outstanding Reviewer for Classical and Quantum Gravity