PPGCosmo Highlights

Since its establishment in 2016, PPGCosmo has emerged as a center of excellence in research and education, driving significant scientific achievements by its students and faculty members. The faculty includes bolsistas do CNPq (levels 1 and 2), researchers listed among the World’s Top 2% Scientists, and affiliate members of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC). This document presents these accomplishments in chronological order.

2024

• A student was awarded an international fellowship by FAPES to visit the Argentine Institute of Radioastronomy Observatory.

• A faculty member published a paper in Physical Review Letters, contributing significantly to astrophysics and multimessenger studies. This work was highlighted by the Brazilian Physical Society (Sociedade Brasileira de Física).

• Another faculty member published a paper in Physical Review Letters, advancing black hole physics.

• An alumnus secured a permanent research position at CBPF.

• A faculty member received the Prêmio Carolina Nemes, awarded by the Brazilian Physical Society for her exceptional contributions.

2023

• A faculty member's research on new astrophysical sources was featured by the Brazilian Physical Society and received international media coverage.

• A faculty member received the Prêmio Anselmo Salles Paschoa from the Brazilian Physical Society for outstanding scientific contributions.

• A PhD student was awarded the 2023 ICTP-SAIFR Prize in Classical Gravity and Applications for the best doctoral thesis. The same student received honorable mentions for the Prêmio CAPES de Tese and the Prêmio José Leite Lopes de Melhor Tese de Doutoramento, ultimately winning the latter.

• Another PhD student received an honorable mention at the ICTP-SAIFR Prize.

• A faculty member published influential work on black holes in Physical Review Letters: SBF announcement.

2022

• A PPGCosmo alumnus was awarded the Newton International Fellowship at Oxford University.

2021

• A PhD thesis received an honorable mention for the ICTP-SAIFR Prize.

• A faculty member published the book Introduction to Quantum Field Theory with Applications to Quantum Gravity with Oxford University Press.

• A student was appointed spokesperson for the LSST Brazilian Participation Group.

• A faculty member published a paper, Spinning Black Holes Fall in Love, in Physical Review Letters. It was selected as an Editors' Suggestion and featured in Physics.

2020

• The program launched the inaugural issue of Cadernos de Astronomia.

• A faculty member published the paper Ethnic and Regional Variations in Hospital Mortality from COVID-19 in Brazil in The Lancet Global Health.

• A faculty member authored the book Hamiltonian Formulation of General Relativity and Applications with Editora Livraria da Física.

• A faculty member was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship for a sabbatical at the Astronomical Observatory of Trieste.

2019

• A faculty member published the paper Static Two-Body Potential at Fifth Post-Newtonian Order in Physical Review Letters.

• A faculty member authored the book A Primer in Tensor Analysis and Relativity, published by Springer.

• Two students received international fellowships: the APS/SBF Visiting Fellowship and the DAAD Visiting Fellowship.

• A faculty member was appointed PI of the LSST Brazilian Participation Group.

2018

• Faculty members published the paper Absence of a Fundamental Acceleration Scale in Galaxies in Nature Astronomy.

• A member received a Humboldt Fellowship to work at Heidelberg University.

• A student received an APS/SBF Visiting Fellowship.

• A faculty member authored the book Lecture Notes in Cosmology, published by Springer.

• A faculty member became coordinator of the Large Scale Structure Science Working Group of the J-PAS collaboration.

2017

• A faculty member published the paper Quantum Backreaction on Three-Dimensional Black Holes and Naked Singularities in Physical Review Letters. The work was featured in Physics.