Miguel Ângelo da Silva Pinto (9511-44E9-CA66)

Curriculum Vitae

Miguel Ângelo da Silva Pinto

Miguel Ângelo da Silva Pinto concluiu a Licenciatura em Física a 2020/07/23, e o Mestrado em Física a 17/05/2023 pela Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa. Atualmente frequenta o Doutoramento em Física e Astrofísica, também na Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, desde 2023/02/17. É Investigador no Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço e Assistente Convidado na Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa. Publicou 11 artigos em revistas especializadas. Organizou 4 eventos. Participou em 12 eventos. Recebeu 2 prémios. Participa e/ou participou como Bolseiro de Doutoramento em 1 projeto, Bolseiro de Investigação em 3 projetos, Investigador em 5 projetos e Outra em 2 projetos. Atua na área de Ciências Exatas com ênfase em Física.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Miguel Ângelo da Silva Pinto

Citation names

Miguel A. S. Pinto

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 9511-44E9-CA66
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1327-0996
Google Scholar ID: iMejnLUAAAAJ

Email addresses

mapinto@fc.ul.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Exact Sciences - Physical Sciences

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian	Upper intermediate (B2)	Advanced (C1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Advanced (C1)
Italian	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)
Czech	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)
Polish	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2023/02 - 2027 Ongoing	Física e Astrofísica (Doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal "Cosmology, Compact Objects and Gravitational Waves in Modified Gravity" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2020/09/04 - 2023/05/17 Concluded	Física (Mestrado) Major in Física Nuclear e Partículas Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal "Gravitational induced particle production in modified gravity" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	19
2017/09/10 - 2020/07/23 Concluded	Física (Licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal	16

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/10 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2025/02/01 - Current	Invited Assistant (University Teacher)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

2022/09/19 - 2023/02/12	Tutor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022/02/01 - 2022/07/31	Tutor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2023/03/01 - 2027/02/28	Applications of modified gravity in high energy astroparticle physics and cosmology UI/BD/154479/2022 10.54499/UI/BD/154479/2022 PhD Student Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2026/03/01 - 2026/07/01	Bolsa Fulbright para Investigação com o apoio da Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. (FCT) Fulbright Grant Research Fellow Johns Hopkins University, United States	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2024/10/20 - 2024/10/30	The role of non-minimally coupled scalar fields in f(R,T) gravity to address cosmic tensions E-COST-GRANT-CA21136-4db5f221 Research Fellow Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics, Italy	European Cooperation in Science and Technology Concluded
2023/09/05 - 2023/09/11	Addressing cosmological tensions with Palatini formulation of modified theories of gravity E-COST-GRANT-CA21136-9a151a8a Research Fellow Universitat de València, Spain	European Cooperation in Science and Technology Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2024/01 - Current	Addressing observational tensions in cosmology with systematics and fundamental physics (CosmoVerse) CA21136 Researcher	European Cooperation in Science and Technology Ongoing
2024/09/01 - 2028/08/31	Retos actuales en gravedad y campos: aspectos clásicos y cuánticos (REACTGC) PID2023-149560NB-C21 Researcher Universitat de València, Spain	Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades Ongoing
2022/01/01 - 2025/12/31	Para além de Lambda PTDC/FIS-AST/0054/2021 10.54499/PTDC/FIS-AST/0054/2021 Researcher FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2020/01/01 - 2024/12/31	Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço UIDB/04434/2020 10.54499/UIDB/04434/2020 Researcher Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Portugal FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2020/01/01 - 2024/12/31	Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço UIDP/04434/2020 10.54499/UIDP/04434/2020 Researcher Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Portugal FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2020/04 - 2021/04	Computational modeling of wound healing Intern Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional, Portugal	Concluded
2019/07/08 - 2019/07/30	Experimental predictions of particle physics theories Summer Intern Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional, Portugal	Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Conference paper	Miguel A. S. Pinto; Harko, T.; Lobo, F.S.N.. Corresponding author: Miguel A. S. Pinto. "Challenging $\Lambda $CDM with Scalar-tensor $f(R,T)$ Gravity and Thermodynamics of Irreversible Matter Creation". Paper presented in 8th Conference of the Polish Society on Relativity, Warsaw, 2022. Published • 10.5506/aphyspolbsupp.16.6-a28
Journal article	Miguel A. S. Pinto; João Luís Rosa. "$\Lambda$CDM-like evolution in Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity". European Physical Journal C (2025): https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04066. Under revision • 10.48550/ARXIV.2411.04066 Di Valentino, Eleonora; Said, Jackson Levi; Riess, Adam; Pollo, Agnieszka; Poulin, Vivian; Gómez-Valent, Adrià; Weltman, Amanda; et al. "The CosmoVerse White Paper: Addressing observational tensions in cosmology with systematics and fundamental physics". Physics of the Dark Universe 49 (2025): 101965. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dark.2025.101965. Published • 10.1016/j.dark.2025.101965 Miguel A. S. Pinto; Maluf, Roberto V.; Olmo, Gonzalo J.. Corresponding author: Miguel A. S. Pinto. "Regular black hole solutions in (2 + 1)-dimensional f(R, T) gravity coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics". The European Physical Journal C 85 8 (2025): https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-14585-0. Published • 10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-14585-0 Harko, Tiberiu; Miguel A. S. Pinto; Shahidi, Shahab. "Matter really does matter, or Why f(R,Matter) type theories are significant for gravitational physics and cosmology". Physics of the Dark Universe 48 (2025): 101863. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dark.2025.101863. Published • 10.1016/j.dark.2025.101863 Cláudio Gomes; João Luís Rosa; Miguel A. S. Pinto. Corresponding author: Cláudio Gomes. "Gravitational wave propagation in hybrid metric-Palatini gravity". European Physical Journal C (2025): https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12870. Under revision Barros e Sá, Nuno; Miguel A. S. Pinto; Trindade, Tomás. "Clarifying the relation between covariantly conserved currents and Noether's second theorem". Classical and Quantum Gravity (2025): https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14454. Submitted Cipriano, Ricardo A. C.; Ganiyeva, Nailya; Harko, Tiberiu; Lobo, Francisco S. N.; Miguel A. S. Pinto; Rosa, João Luís. "Energy-Momentum Squared Gravity: A Brief Overview". Universe 10 9 (2024): 339. https://doi.org/10.3390/universe10090339. Published • 10.3390/universe10090339 Cipriano, Ricardo A.C.; Harko, Tiberiu; Lobo, Francisco S.N.; Miguel A. S. Pinto; Rosa, João Luís. "Gravitationally induced matter creation in scalar–tensor f(R,Tµ¿Tµ¿)". Physics of the Dark Universe 44 (2024): 101463. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dark.2024.101463. Published • 10.1016/j.dark.2024.101463 Bouali, Amine; Chaudhary, Himanshu; Harko, Tiberiu; Lobo, Francisco S N; Ouali, Taoufik; Miguel A. S. Pinto. "Observational constraints and cosmological implications of scalar–tensor f(R, T) gravity". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 526 3 (2023): 4192-4208. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad2998. Open access • Published • 10.1093/mnras/stad2998 Miguel A. S. Pinto; Harko, Tiberiu; Lobo, Francisco S. N.. "Irreversible Geometrothermodynamics of Open Systems in Modified Gravity". Entropy 25 6 (2023): 944. https://doi.org/10.3390/e25060944. Published • 10.3390/e25060944 Miguel A. S. Pinto; Harko, Tiberiu; Lobo, Francisco S.¿N.. "Gravitationally induced particle production in scalar-tensor f(R,T) gravity". Physical Review D 106 4 (2022): https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.106.044043. Published • 10.1103/physrevd.106.044043
Magazine article	A.S.Pinto, Miguel. "What if Einstein was wrong?", CosmoVerse Website, 2024, https://cosmoversetensions.eu/learn-cosmology/what-if-einstein-was-wrong/.
Thesis / Dissertation	"Gravitational induced particle production in modified gravity". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, 2023. https://repositorio.ul.pt/handle/10451/58776.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2025/05/26	LambdaCDM-like evolution in Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity	13th Bolyai-Gauss-Lobachevsky Conference on Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Physics and Mathematics (Saïdia, Morocco)
2025/04/15	LambdaCDM-like evolution in Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity	My Favourite Dark Matter Model Universidade dos Açores (Ponta Delgada, Portugal)
2024/10/15	Cosmology and gravitational physics in f(R,Matter) type theories	Instytut Fizyki Teoretycznej i Astrofizyki, Uniwersytet Gdanski (Gdansk, Poland)
2024/05/07	Cosmology, matter creation, and regular black holes in non-minimal geometry-matter coupling theories	CosmoVerse Journal Club
2024/05/02	[Invited] Physical and cosmological implications of non-minimal geometry-matter couplings	12th Bolyai-Gauss-Lobachevsky Conference on Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Physics and Mathematics Domus Collegium Hungaricum of Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest, Hungary)
2023/12/13	Non-minimal geometry-matter couplings and their implications	7th Winter Workshop @Valencia Universitat de València (Valência, Spain)
2023/10/15	[Invited] E se a matéria pudesse ser criada pela gravidade?	3 Day Mission: SPAC3 Exploration Physis (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/04/04	Gravitationally induced particle production in modified gravity	17th Iberian Cosmology meeting (Ponte de Lima, Portugal)
2022/10/07	Particle production processes in scalar-tensor f(R,T) gravity	32nd Midwest Relativity Meeting Oakland University (Rochester, Michigan, United States)
2022/09/23	Challenging LambaCDM with scalar-tensor f(R,T) gravity and thermodynamics of irreversible matter creation	8th Conference of the Polish Society on Relativity Polish Society on Relativity (Warsaw, Poland)
2022/09/05	Particle production processes in f(R,T) gravity	XXXII Encontro Nacional de Astronomia e Astrofísica Sociedade Portuguesa de Astronomia (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/07/06	Open thermodynamic systems and particle production processes in scalar-tensor f(R,T) gravity	23rd International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing, China)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2022/07/12 - 2022/07/15	Responsible for presenting and supervising one of the physics activities in "Verão na ULisboa", a one-week workshop for high school students to get in touch with scientific experiments. This event was held at the Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa. (2022/07/12 - 2022/07/15) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022/04/23 - 2022/04/23	Responsible for maintaining the proper conduct of the Lisbon Regional Stage exam of the Portuguese Physics Olympiads, held at the Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa. (2022/04/23 - 2022/04/23) Call (Other)	Sociedade Portuguesa de Física, Portugal
2021/02 - 2021/02	Responsible for supporting high school students in their analysis of the ATLAS/Z-Path in the 17th International Masterclasses - Hands on Particle Physics, organized by the International Particle Physics Outreach Group. I helped the students via ZOOM due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (2021/02 - 2021/02) Workshop (Other)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2019/04 - 2019/04	Responsible for supporting high school students in their analysis of the ATLAS/Z-Path in the 15th International Masterclasses - Hands on Particle Physics, organized by the International Particle Physics Outreach Group. I helped the students that participated in the activity at the Instituto Superior Técnico. (2019/04 - 2019/04) Workshop (Other)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2024/05/13 - 2024/05/18	CosmoVerse School @Corfu is the first School by the CosmoVerse COST Action and was centered on the interface of data analysis and fundamental physics in cosmology. Workshop	CosmoVerse School @Corfu European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium
2023/09/18 - 2023/09/22	The School was designed for Master and PhD Students working in the areas of cosmology and astroparticle physics and combined a scientific with a 'soft skills' training program. Science lectures were delivered by world experts from different European Universities and research centres. The course corresponded to 3 ECTS credits and there was no registration fee. Workshop	First EuCAPT School: Cosmology Universitat de València, Spain
2022/10/22 - 2022/10/22	Invited speaker at the "Fórum Pedagógico 2022", an annual event organized by Physis (the Portuguese Association of Physics Students), which aims to bring the discussion around the pedagogical problems that Physics courses face across Portugal. In particular, I was invited to participate in the final debate, whose theme was "The role of experimental physics in the academic path of students in their different phases". Symposium	Fórum Pedagógico 2022 Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022/09/19 - 2022/09/23	The 8th Conference of the Polish Society on Relativity aims to promote and discuss the recent achievements of the Polish and the international community. The scientific programme of the conference covers a broad range of topics in the classical and quantum theory of relativity. Amongst the discussed topics will be mathematical and numerical relativity, relativistic cosmology and the early universe, relativistic astrophysics, gravitational waves, black holes, and quantum models of gravity. Conference	8th Conference of the Polish Society on Relativity Polish Society on Relativity, Poland
2022/09/05 - 2022/09/06	The XXXII Encontro Nacional de Astronomia e Astrofísica took place on September 05-06, 2022, at the Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa. This annual conference aims to promote and discuss the research on astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology in Portugal. I participated in this conference as a speaker as well as a spectator. Conference	XXXII Encontro Nacional de Astronomia e Astrofísica Sociedade Portuguesa de Astronomia, Portugal
2022/07/03 - 2022/07/08	The 23rd International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation, also known as GR23, was the latest in the series of triennial international conferences held under the auspices of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation regarding those topics. I participated in this conference as a speaker as well as a spectator. Conference	23rd International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
2022/02/24 - 2022/02/27	The Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Física is an annual meeting for physics and engineering physics students to gather and exchange experiences. The XXIV edition took place at the Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade da Beira Interior, accounting several workshops, talks and recreative activities, which I attended. Meeting	XXIV Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Física Universidade da Beira Interior Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2021/11/10 - 2021/11/12	The IA-ON8 meeting marked the eighth internal annual meeting of the IA team, where the progress of the research, outreach, and management activities were discussed. IA-ON8 was also a major opportunity to discuss and keep improving IA's strategy, as well as to foster synergies between IA groups across all activity areas. Meeting	IA-ON8 Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Portugal
2021/10/12 - 2021/10/17	The FIC.A - Festival Internacional de Ciência 2021 was the 1st major science focused event in Portugal, with numerous research centers across all scientific areas taking part of it. I participated in this event as an IA Master's Student/Investigator, discussing with high school and middle school students about my research experience, physics and IA's overall functioning. Festival	FIC.A - Festival Internacional de Ciência 2021 Câmara Municipal de Oeiras, Portugal
2020/02/20 - 2020/02/23	The Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Física is an annual meeting for physics and engineering physics students to gather and exchange experiences. The XXII edition took place at the Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologias da Universidade de Coimbra, accounting several workshops, talks and recreative activities, which I attended. I also participated in the PLANCKS, which is a exam-based physics competition for bachelor's and master's students. Meeting	XXII Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Física Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2019/02 - 2019/02	The Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Física is an annual meeting for physics and engineering physics students to gather and exchange experiences. The XXI edition took place at the Instituto Superior Técnico (Universidade de Lisboa), accounting several workshops, talks and recreative activities. In this edition, I participated exclusively in the PLANCKS, which is a exam-based physics competition for bachelor's and master's students. Meeting	XXI Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Física Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2018/02/22 - 2018/02/25	The Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Física is an annual meeting for physics and engineering physics students to gather and exchange experiences. The XXI edition took place at the Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, accounting several workshops, talks and recreative activities, which I attended. I also participated in the PLANCKS, which is a exam-based physics competition for bachelor's and master's students. Meeting	XX Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Física Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2025/06 - Current	Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) Consortium	Core Member
2024/01/19 - Current	COST Action CA21136 (CosmoVerse)	Member of Working Group 3 (Fundamental Physics)
2023/04 - Current	Cogito Podcast	Co-Creator & Podcaster
2019/05 - 2021/10	NFEF-FCUL	Board Member
2018/05 - 2019/05	NFEF-FCUL	Secretary of the Board of the General Meeting

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2025/09/10 - 2026/02/09	Numerical Methods	Engenharia Física (Licenciatura)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2025/02/17 - 2025/07/26	Classical Electrodynamics	Física (Licenciatura)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022/09/19 - 2023/02/12	Quantum Mechanics	Física (Licenciatura)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022/02/21 - 2022/07/08	Mechanics and Waves	Engenharia Geoespacial (Licenciatura)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022/02/21 - 2022/07/08	Elements of Physics	Geologia (Licenciatura)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

	Activity description	Newspaper / Forum
2023/11	Interview for COST Action CA21136 (CosmoVerse)	CosmoVerse Website

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2025/06/09 - Current	European Physical Journal C (1434-6044)	Springer Science+Business Media
2025/06/04 - Current	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (1365-2966)	Oxford University Press

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2022/03/25 - 2022/07/26	Nuclear and Particle Physics	Luís Fernandes
2022/07/11 - 2022/07/22	Quantum Mechanics	Daniela Bento
2022/02/28 - 2022/06/27	Modern Physics	Ana Calado
2021/08/13 - 2021/09/02	Quantum Mechanics	Flávia Lopes

Distinctions

Award

2020	Academic Merit Certificate Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2019	Academic Merit Certificate Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal