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Alex Vañó Viñuales in an expert on General Relativity, its numerical implementations and Gravitational Wave signals, working at the interface between mathematical relativity and numerical relativity. He studied his Degree in Physics at the University of the Balearic Islands, Spain, spending one year at the Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, Germany, as an Erasmus exchange student. Continued on to a master and PhD at the University of the Balearic Islands, which he defended in September 2015. He is currently an Auxiliary Researcher in Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento as well as an Invited Professor there. Published 17 articles in journals, with 2 more proceedings articles. Co-supervised 2 PhD thesis(es). Supervising 2 MSc dissertation(s) and co-supervised 3. Has received 3 awards and/or honors. Participates and/or participated as Master Student Fellow in 1 project(s), PhD Student Fellow in 1 project(s), Post-doc in 1 project(s) and as Researcher in 7 project(s). Works in the area of Physical Sciences with emphasis on General Relativity and Gravitational Waves. In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: General Relativity; Gravitation; Numerical Relativity; Gravitational Waves; Special Relativity; Data analysis; Waveform modelling; Dark Matter.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Alex Vañó Viñuales
Date of birth
1987/01/31
Gender
Male

Citation names

  • Vañó-Viñuales, Alex
  • Vano-Vinuales, Alex

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
861D-47A9-1768
ORCID iD
0000-0002-8589-006X
Researcher Id
E-9612-2016

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Physical Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian (Mother tongue)
German Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
French Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1)
Portuguese Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1)
Catalan Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Japanese Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2)
Chinese Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
Welsh Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2011/06/24 - 2015/09/18
Concluded
 PhD in Physics (Doctor)
Major in Physics
Universitat de les Illes Balears Departament de Física, Spain
"Free evolution of the hyperboloidal initial value problem in spherical symmetry" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Excellent Cum Laude
2010/09/23 - 2011/06/23
Concluded
 Master in Physics (Master)
Major in Physics
Universitat de les Illes Balears Departament de Física, Spain
"Numerical evolution of the Einstein equations in spherical symmetry: the GBSSN equations and conformal compactification" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 9.17 (of 10)
2005/09/01 - 2010/09/22
Concluded
 Licenciatura en Física (Licence)
Major in Physics
Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
3.39 (of 4) or 9.36 (of 10)
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/03/01 - Current Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2015/10/01 - 2019/03/01 Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Cardiff University School of Physics and Astronomy, United Kingdom

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/09/01 - 2024/08/31 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Departamento de Física, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2023/05/01 - 2026/04/30 Hyperbolic Geometry and Gravitational Waves
2309084
Core team member
University of Maryland, United States
 National Science Foundation
Ongoing
2011/12/15 - 2015/09/30 Simulacion y deteccion de ondas gravitacionales procedentes de sistemas binarios de agujeros negros (FPU grant)
AP2010-1697
PhD Student Fellow
Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
 Gobierno de Espana Ministerio de Educación Cultura y Deporte
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2019/03/01 - 2025/02/28 FCT-funded contract with CENTRA
DL 57/2016/CP1384/CT0090
10.54499/DL57/2016/CP1384/CT0090
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2016/12/30 - 2019/12/29 Gravitational waves: from first detections to full design sensitivity with Advanced LIGO (IGraWaveEra)
FPA2016-76821-P
Researcher
Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain

Universitat de les Illes Balears Departament de Física, Spain
Gobierno de Espana Ministerio de Educación Cultura y Deporte

Gobierno de España Ministerio de Economía y Empresa
Concluded
2015/10/01 - 2019/04/05 Mapping gravitational waves from collisions of black holes (BlackHoleMaps)
647839, ERC-2014-CoG
Post-doc
Cardiff University, United Kingdom
 European Research Council
Ongoing
2014/01/01 - 2016/12/31 Gravitational wave data analysis and source modeling for the advanced detector era
FPA2013-41042-P
Researcher
Universitat de les Illes Balears Departament de Física, Spain

Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
Gobierno de Espana Ministerio de Educación Cultura y Deporte

Gobierno de España Ministerio de Economía y Empresa
Concluded
2011/01/01 - 2014/12/31 Analisis de datos y simulaciones de fuentes para los detectores de ondas gravitacionales
FPA2010-16495
Researcher
Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain

Universitat de les Illes Balears Departament de Física, Spain
Gobierno de España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Concluded
2010/12/20 - 2011/12/14 MULTIDARK: Multimessenger Approach for Dark Matter Detection
CSD2009-00064 MICINN
Master Student Fellow
Instituto de Física Teórica, Spain

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Gobierno de España Ministerio de Economía y Empresa
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2015 - Current Precessing black-hole binaries
dp034
Researcher
Distributed Research using Advanced Computing, United Kingdom
2013 - Current Modeling gravitational wave signals from black hole binaries
2015133131
Researcher
PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), Germany
2015 - 2015 Merger and gravitational wave signal of non-precessing black holes with large spins
AECT-2015-2-0017
Researcher
MareNostrum Supercomputing Centre, Spain
Concluded
2013 - 2015 Coalescence of Black Hole Binary systems
AECT-2013-1-0010
AECT-2013- 2-0007
AECT-2013-3-0012
AECT-2014-3-0010
AECT-2015-1-0012
Researcher
MareNostrum Supercomputing Centre, Spain
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Viñuales, Alex. "Free hyperboloidal evolution in spherical symmetry". Paper presented in The Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Roma, 2017.
    Published • 10.1142/9789813226609_0220
  2. Vano-Vinuales, Alex; Husa, Sascha; IOP. "Unconstrained hyperboloidal evolution of black holes in spherical symmetry with GBSSN and Z4c". Paper presented in Spanish Relativity Meeting (ERE 2014): almost 100 years after Einstein's revolution, Valencia, 2014.
    Published • 10.1088/1742-6596/600/1/012061
Journal article
  1. Vañó-Viñuales, Alex; Valente, Tiago. Corresponding author: Vañó-Viñuales, Alex. "Height-function-based 4D reference metrics for hyperboloidal evolution". General Relativity and Gravitation 56 11 (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10714-024-03323-8.
    Published • 10.1007/s10714-024-03323-8
  2. Alex Vañó-Viñuales. "Conformal diagrams for stationary and dynamical strong-field hyperboloidal slices". Classical and Quantum Gravity (2024): https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ad3aca.
    10.1088/1361-6382/ad3aca
  3. Hamilton, E.; Fauchon-Jones, E.; Hannam, M.; Hoy, C.; Kalaghatgi, C.; London, L.; Thompson, J.E.; et al. "Catalog of precessing black-hole-binary numerical-relativity simulations". Physical Review D 109 4 (2024): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85187244613&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1103/PhysRevD.109.044032
  4. Flavio Rossetti; Alex Vañó-Viñuales. "Decay of solutions of the wave equation in cosmological spacetimes—a numerical analysis". Classical and Quantum Gravity (2023): https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ace7a6.
    10.1088/1361-6382/ace7a6
  5. Alex Vañó-Viñuales. "Spherically symmetric black hole spacetimes on hyperboloidal slices". Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fams.2023.1206017.
    10.3389/fams.2023.1206017
  6. Christian Peterson; Shalabh Gautam; Inês Rainho; Alex Vañó-Viñuales; David Hilditch. "3D evolution of a semilinear wave model for the Einstein field equations on compactified hyperboloidal slices". Physical Review D (2023): https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.108.024067.
    10.1103/PhysRevD.108.024067
  7. Eleanor Hamilton; Edward Fauchon-Jones; Mark Hannam; Charlie Hoy; Chinmay Kalaghatgi; Lionel London; Jonathan E. Thompson; et al. Corresponding author: Eleanor Hamilton. "A catalogue of precessing black-hole-binary numerical-relativity simulations". (2023):
    Submitted
  8. Daniela D. Doneva; Alex Vañó-Viñuales; Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev. "Dynamical descalarization with a jump during a black hole merger". Physical Review D (2022): https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.106.L061502.
    10.1103/PhysRevD.106.L061502
  9. Eleanor Hamilton; Lionel London; Jonathan E. Thompson; Edward Fauchon-Jones; Mark Hannam; Chinmay Kalaghatgi; Sebastian Khan; Francesco Pannarale; Alex Vano-Vinuales. "Model of gravitational waves from precessing black-hole binaries through merger and ringdown". Physical Review D (2021): https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.124027.
    10.1103/PhysRevD.104.124027
  10. Shalabh Gautam; Alex Vañó-Viñuales; David Hilditch; Sukanta Bose. "Summation by parts and truncation error matching on hyperboloidal slices". Physical Review D (2021): https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.103.084045.
    10.1103/PhysRevD.103.084045
  11. Edgar Gasperín; Shalabh Gautam; David Hilditch; Alex Vañó-Viñuales. "The hyperboloidal numerical evolution of a good-bad-ugly wave equation". Classical and Quantum Gravity (2020): https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ab5f21.
    10.1088/1361-6382/ab5f21
  12. Alex Vañó-Viñuales; Sascha Husa. "Spherical symmetry as a test case for unconstrained hyperboloidal evolution II: gauge conditions". Classical and Quantum Gravity (2018): https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/aaa4e2.
    10.1088/1361-6382/aaa4e2
  13. Viñuales, Alex. "Welcome to a new era in astronomy". Nature Astronomy (2017): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41550-017-0240-z.
    10.1038/s41550-017-0240-z
  14. Viñuales, Alex. "Effects of waveform model systematics on the interpretation of GW150914". Class. Quant. Grav. 34 10 (2017): 104002-104002.
    10.1088/1361-6382/aa6854
  15. Vañó-Viñuales, Alex. "Directly comparing GW150914 with numerical solutions of Einstein’s equations for binary black hole coalescence". Physical Review D (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.94.064035.
    10.1103/physrevd.94.064035
  16. Viñuales, Alex. "Properties of the Binary Black Hole Merger GW150914". Phys. Rev. Lett. 116 24 (2016): 241102-241102.
    10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.241102
  17. Viñuales, Alex. "Improved analysis of GW150914 using a fully spin-precessing waveform Model". Phys. Rev. X6 4 (2016): 041014-041014.
    10.1103/PhysRevX.6.041014
  18. Vañó-Viñuales, Alex; Husa, Sascha; Hilditch, David. "Spherical symmetry as a test case for unconstrained hyperboloidal evolution". Classical and Quantum Gravity 32 17 (2015): 175010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/32/17/175010.
    10.1088/0264-9381/32/17/175010
Magazine article
  1. Brito, Richard; Cardoso, Vitor; Duque, Francisco; Gasperin, Edgar; Hilditch, David; Raposo, Guilherme; Vañó-Viñuales, Alex. "Exploring strong gravity with GRIT", Revista Técnica 505 Edition, aeist, 2023
Preprint
  1. Peterson, Christian; Gautam, Shalabh; Vañó-Viñuales, Alex; Hilditch, David. Corresponding author: Peterson, Christian. "Spherical Evolution of the Generalized Harmonic Gauge Formulation of General Relativity on Compactified Hyperboloidal Slices". 2024.

Other

Other output
  1. Waveform Modelling for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. 2023. Afshordi, N.; Akçay, S.; Seoane, P.A.; Antonelli, A.; Aurrekoetxea, J.C.; Barack, L.; Barausse, E.; et al. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85183310253&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.48550/arXiv.2311.01300
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/07/03 Reference metrics on hyperboloidal slices for free evolution Spanish-Portuguese Relativity Meeting (EREP) 2024
University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2024/07/02 Towards relating Cauchy and hyperboloidal initial data Virtual Infinity Workshop 2024
Hyperboloidal Research Network (Portugal)
2024/05/03 Current numerical efforts on free hyperboloidal evolutions Seminar given at TAPIR, Caltech
Caltech (Pasadena, United States)
2024/01/12 Conformal diagrams for strong field hyperboloidal slices Virtual Infinity seminar
Hyperboloidal Research Network
2023/12/20 Penrose diagrams for strong-field hyperboloidal slices XVI Black Holes Workshop
FEUP, University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2023/10/13 Free hyperboloidal evolutions: current numerical efforts Seminar given at the University of the Balearic Islands
University of the Balearic Islands (Palma de Mallorca, Spain)
2023/06/08 Free hyperboloidal numerical evolution Seminar given at Rikkyo University
Rikkyo University (Tokyo, Japan)
2023/05/11 Current efforts on free hyperboloidal numerical evolutions Seminar given at Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics
Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (Kyoto, Japan)
2023/02/17 Two approaches to (3D) free hyperboloidal evolution Seminar given to Academia Sinica
Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan)
2023/02/06 Current status of 3D free hyperboloidal evolution Talk given at the monthly Numerical Relativity community call
Numerical Relativity community call, online community
2022/12/19 Causal visualization of collapsing hyperboloidal slices XV Black Holes Workshop
ISCTE (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/11/30 Towards 3D free hyperboloidal evolution General Relativity Seminar given at TPI, FSU Jena, Germany
University of Jena (Jena, Germany)
2022/11/10 Current efforts towards 3D free hyperboloidal evolution Seminar given to GRIT, CENTRA, IST, University of Lisbon
CENTRA, Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/09/21 Current efforts on free hyperboloidal evolution Seminar given to the Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity division at the Albert Einstein Institute
Albert Einstein Institute Potsdam (Berlin, Germany)
2022/09/01 Free hyperboloidal numerical evolution European Einstein Toolkit meeting 2022
University College Dublin (Dublin, Ireland)
2022/08/24 Free hyperboloidal evolution Seminar given to the Strong Gravity group at Perimeter Institute
Perimeter Institute (Waterloo, Canada)
2022/07/25 Free hyperboloidal evolution using conformal compactification Frontiers in Numerical Relativity 2022 (FNR2022)
University of Jena (Jena, Germany)
2022/07/08 Free hyperboloidal evolution New frontiers in strong gravity
Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual (Benasque, Spain)
2022/06/28 Current numerical efforts on free hyperboloidal evolution Seminar given at a group meeting of the Gravity Group of The University of Mississippi
University of Mississippi
2022/06/16 Current efforts on free hyperboloidal evolution Seminar given to the Gravity Exploration Institute at Cardiff University
Cardiff University (Cardiff, United Kingdom)
2022/06/14 Gravitational waves: from Einstein to infinity Higgs Lecture and Workshop 2022
Kings College London (London, United Kingdom)
2022/03/03 Current efforts on free evolution of the hyperboloidal initial value problem Seminar given to the Theoretical Astrophysics section at the Univ. of Tuebingen
University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany)
2021/12/21 Hyperboloidal trumpet black hole slices and their causal visualization XIV Black Holes Workshop
University of Aveiro, Portugal (Aveiro, Portugal)
2021/09/16 Hyperboloidal massless scalar field in 3D Spanish-Portuguese Relativity Meeting (EREP) 2021
University of Aveiro, Portugal (Online)
2021/09/01 Hyperboloidal evolutions of the wave equation in 3D Global meeting of the GWverse COST action 2021
GWVerse COST action and CENTRA, IST, Univ. of Lisbon (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/07/30 Hyperboloidal wave equation in 3D North American Einstein Toolkit School 2021
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA (Online)
2020/12/22 Penrose diagrams for visualising black hole hyperboloidal slices XIII Black Holes Workshop
CENTRA, Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisboa, Portugal)
2020/10/08 Free evolution on hyperboloidal slices with conformal compactification ICERM Workshop 2 - Mathematical and Computational Approaches for Solving the Source- Free Einstein Field Equations
The Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM), Brown University (Providence, United States)
2019/12/19 Hyperboloidal slices of black hole spacetimes in spherical symmetry XII Black Holes Workshop
Universidade do Minho (Guimarães, Portugal)
2019/09/05 Free evolution on hyperboloidal slices: spherical symmetry and extension plans European Einstein Toolkit Meeting 2019
Einstein Toolkit Development Team (London, United Kingdom)
2019/07/10 Reaching Infinity: Free Hyperboloidal Evolution Using Conformal Methods In Spherical Symmetry GR22 and Amaldi 13
University of Valencia and Instituto de Física Corpuscular (Valencia, Spain)
2019/02/28 Reaching infinity: free hyperboloidal evolution using conformal methods in spherical symmetry Seminar given to the GRIT group in CENTRA, IST
Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/06/05 Reaching infinity in numerical simulations Numerical Relativity beyond General Relativity
Benasque Science Center (Benasque, Spain)
2017/11/30 Free hyperboloidal evolution in spherical symmetry 27th Workshop on General Relativity and Gravitation in Japan (JGRG27)
University of Hiroshima (Hiroshima, Japan)
2017/11/08 Talk IV: Hyperboloidal numerical evolution in spherical symmetry Lecture series on ''The hyperboloidal initial value problem in numerical relativity''
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) (Pune, India)
2017/11/06 Talk III: Concepts in the hyperboloidal initial value problem Lecture series on ''The hyperboloidal initial value problem in numerical relativity''
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) (Pune, India)
2017/11/02 Numerical Relativity in the Era of Gravitational Wave Astronomy Colloquium given at IUCAA
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) (Pune, India)
2017/10/30 Talk I: Numerical relativity evolutions of black hole binaries Lecture series on ''The hyperboloidal initial value problem in numerical relativity''
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) (Pune, India)
2017/06/20 Free hyperboloidal evolution: results in spherical symmetry The Physics of Extreme Gravity Stars
Nordita (Stockholm, Sweden)
2017/02/28 Numerical relativity behind gravitational waves: a new approach Talk given at the Joint Astronomy Group Meeting
Cardiff University (Cardiff, United Kingdom)
2016/09/12 Going beyond Bowen-York binary black hole initial data Spanish-Portuguese Relativity Meeting (EREP) 2016
Department of Physics of Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisboa, Portugal)
2016/09/10 Free evolution of the hyperboloidal initial value problem in spherical symmetry Workshop on Numerical and Mathematical Relativity 2016
Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Jena (Oppurg, Germany)
2016/07/13 Free hyperboloidal evolution of strong field initial data in spherical symmetry 21st International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (GR21)
Columbia University (New York, United States)
2016/04/05 Free hyperboloidal evolution in spherical symmetry BritGrav16
University of Nottingham (Nottingham, United Kingdom)
2015/10/16 Free hyperboloidal evolution in spherical symmetry Seminar given to the Gravitational Physics Group at Cardiff University
Cardiff University (Cardiff, United Kingdom)
2015/09/08 Free hyperboloidal evolution in spherical symmetry Spanish Relativity Meeting (ERE) 2015
Spanish Society of Gravitation and Relativity (Palma de Mallorca, Spain)
2015/07/16 Free Hyperboloidal Evolution In Spherical Symmetry 14th Marcel Grossmann Meeting
International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics Network (ICRANet) (Rome, Italy)
2014/09/04 Unconstrained hyperboloidal evolution of strong field initial data in spherical symmetry Spanish Relativity Meeting (ERE) 2014
Spanish Society of Gravitation and Relativity (Valencia, Spain)
2014/07/10 Unconstrained hyperboloidal evolution in spherical symmetry Seminar given to the Relativity Group of the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Córdoba, Argentina)
2013/09/20 Spherical symmetry as a test case for unconstrained hyperboloidal evolution Numerical Relativity Data Analysis (NRDA) 2013
Universitat de les Illes Balears (Club Pollentia Resort, Alcudia, Spain)
2013/09/09 Spherical symmetry as a test case for unconstrained hyperboloidal evolution Spanish Relativity Meeting (ERE) 2013
Spanish Society of Gravitation and Relativity (Benasque, Spain)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023/04 - Current Towards Hyperboloidal Numerical Relativity with the Einstein Toolkit
Co-supervisor
Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2023 - Current Electrically Charged Hyperboloidal Evolution
Supervisor
Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2023 - Current Numerical studies of Hawking radiation via hyperboloidal slices
Supervisor
Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2022/10/01 - Current Evolution of the Einstein equations on hyperboloidal slices
Co-supervisor
 Physics (PhD)
Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Departamento de Física, Portugal
2017 - Current Towards Einstein Field Equations in Spherical Symmetry on Large Hyperboloidal Slices: A Generalized Harmonic Gauge Formalism
Co-supervisor
 General Relativity (PhD)
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, India
2024/01 - 2024/06 Foliating Spacetime Along Hyperboloidal Slicings
Supervisor
 Physics (Degree)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022/01/10 - 2023/11/23 Linearized General Relativity on Hyperboloidal Slices
Co-supervisor
 Physics (Master)
Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Departamento de Física, Portugal
2023/02 - 2023/06 Hyperboloidal evolution with different height functions
Supervisor
 PIC project (Other)
Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/02 - 2023/06 Hyperboloidal evolution with different propagation speeds
Supervisor
 PIC project (Other)
Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2023/11/07 Characteristic Critical Collapse with Null Infinity
(Thesis) Arguer
 Rita Santos (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022/11/23 LInearized General Relativity on Hyperboloidal slices
Supervisor
 Inês Rainho (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022/07/15 Critical phenomena in gravitational collapse Beyond spherical symmetry
(Thesis) Arguer
 Isabel Suárez Fernández (PhD)
Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Departamento de Física, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024/07 - Current Physica Scripta Institute of Physics
2022/11 - Current Physical Review D American Physical Society (APS)
2019/10 - Current Classical and Quantum Gravity Institute of Physics (IOP)

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2023/11 - Current Sociedade Portuguesa de Relatividade e Gravitação Member
2023 - Current Hyperboloidal Research Network Founding member, co-organiser of monthly online seminars and newsletter
2022/10 - Current EuCAPT (The European Consortium for Astroparticle Theory) Member
2022/05 - Current LISA Consortium Member
2022/05 - Current Einstein Telescope Collaboration Member
2005 - Current Spanish Royal Physics Society (RSEF) Member
2021 - 2021 COST Action CA16104’s research network “GWverse” Member of working group 2
2010/03 - 2019/04 LIGO Scientific Collaboration Member

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2024/07/01 - 2024/07/02 Virtual Infinity Workshop 2024 Niels Bohr Institute
2023/07/10 - 2023/07/13 Infinity on a Gridshell (Hyperboloidal meeting) Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
2023/06/19 - 2023/06/23 European Einstein Toolkit Meeting 2023 University of Aveiro

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/02 - 2023/04 Introduction to Numerical Relativity (Advanced Topics in Computational Physics) Advanced Topics in Computational Physics (Mestrado) Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022/09/28 - 2023/01/12 Introduction to Numerical Relativity (Advanced Topics in General Relativity, Astrophysics and Cosmology I) Master/PhD course (Advanced Topics in General Relativity, Astrophysics and Cosmology I) (Doctor) Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Departamento de Física, Portugal
2021/11/03 - 2022/01/31 Introduction to Numerical Relativity (Advanced Topics in General Relativity, Astrophysics and Cosmology I) PhD in Physics (Advanced Topics in General Relativity, Astrophysics and Cosmology I) (Doctor) Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Departamento de Física, Portugal
2020/10/19 - 2020/10/27 Introduction to Numerical Relativity (Advanced Topics in Computational Physics) Advanced Topics in Computational Physics (Mestrado) Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2019/01/28 - 2019/05/06 Advanced General Relativity and Gravitational Waves Advanced General Relativity and Gravitational Waves (Master) Cardiff University School of Physics and Astronomy, United Kingdom
2012/03/15 - 2012/05/31 Exercise classes for the General Relativity course General Relativity (Licence) Universitat de les Illes Balears Departament de Física, Spain

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2024/02 - Current Proposal evaluator for RES (Red Española de Supercomputación)
Evaluator
 Centre Nacional de Supercomputació, Spain Centre Nacional de Supercomputació

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2022/06 - 2022/06 CENTRA answers outreach video series What is escape velocity?
2017/10 - 2017/10 LIGO: past present and future by Physics World Gravitational waves

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024/10 - Current Classical and Quantum Gravity Institute of Physics

Scientific expedition

Activity description Institution / Organization
2024/05/01 - 2024/05/31 Research stay visiting the SXS Collaboration to learn about Cauchy-characteristic evolutions and BMS frame transformation. California Institute of Technology, United States
2023/05/01 - 2023/05/31 Research stay visiting Koutarou Kyutoku to work on combining neutron stars and black holes as hyperboloidal initial data. Kyoto Daigaku, Japan
2022/08/01 - 2022/08/30 Research stay visiting Erik Schnetter to work on the topics of numerical relativity and hyperboloidal evolutions related to the Einstein Toolkit infrastructure. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada
2017/10/26 - 2017/11/17 Research stay invited by Sanjeev Dhurandhar to work on the topics of numerical relativity and the evolution of the massive wave equation. Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, India
Distinctions

Award

2011 Degree Outstanding Award (“Premi Extraordinari de Llicenciatura”)
Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
2011 FPU studentship grant for PhD studies, AP2010-1697
Gobierno de Espana Ministerio de Educación Cultura y Deporte, Spain

Other distinction

2015 Honorable mention of the 2015 GWIC and Braccini Thesis Prizes
Gravitational Wave International Committee (GWIC), United States