Edgar Gasperín
FCT-researcher @ Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal
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I’m an FCT-researcher at the Center for Astrophysics and Gravitation (CENTRA) in Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon (IST)
My research is concerned with the analysis of global properties of solutions to the Einstein field equations and the inclusion of the conformal boundary in the initial value problem in General Relativity.
Academic trajectory
Current position
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) fellowship at Instituto Superior Técnico (CENTRA-IST)
Past positions
Postdoc researcher at Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne - Dijon, France (IMB)
Postdoc researcher at Instituto Superior Técnico - Lisboa, Portugal (IST)
Education
PhD in Mathematics, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK. Thesis
BSc Physics, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. cdmx, Mex. Dissertation
Supervision
Dr Miguel Duarte. Postdoc project supervision @ IST
Christian Peterson. PhD thesis cosupervision @ IST
Miguel Pereira. Master thesis supervision @ IST
Rafael Pinto. Master thesis supervision @ IST
Francisco Pais. Master thesis supervision @ IST
Manuel Ratola. BSc thesis supervision @ IST
João Dinis Álvarez. Gulbenkian project supervision @ IST
Firoz Khan. Master year-1 project supervision @ IMB
Ghewa Dorra.Master year-1 project supervision @ IMB
Teaching
2024 Waves and Oscillations. BSc first year course (>120 students) @ IST
2022-2023 Black holes and gravitational waves. MSc & PhD course @ IST
2021-2022 Black holes and gravitational waves. MSc & PhD course @ IST
2020 & 2021 crash course on the use of xAct in Mathematica @ IST & @ IMB
2024 short course on the use of xAct at Division of Gravitation and Mathematical Physics (DGFM) of the Mexican Physical Society (SMF) @ Online
Grants
FCT - PeX R&D grant –exploratory project grant to hire a postdoc.
FCT Research Fellowship –6-year research employment.
CONACyT phd studentship –for posgraduate studies abroad.
SEP phd complement scholarship –for posgraduate studies abroad.
International reach
Co-organiser of At the Interface of Mathematical Relativity and Astrophysics (22w5025) @ Banff conference website
Co-organiser of the Joint Online Mathematical Relativity Colloquium @ online colloquium website
Member of the Hyperboloidal Research Network @ online Hyp Website
Local-organising comitee member of GWverse global meeting @ Lisbon conference website
Some of my recorded research talks can be found here:
Publications
Outreach
Outreach talk in the Mexican Space Agency (Mexico) Video
Interview at the Mexican Space Agency (Mexico) Video
Radio UNAM participation (Mexico) website
Outreach talk at Orizaba Planetarium (Mexico).
Pint of Science outreach talk (London).
Outreach talk at NAPE skills factory (Lisbon).
Talk at VIII Jornadas de Engenharia Física in IST (Lisbon).
Round table at VIII Jornadas de Engenharia Física en IST (Lisbon). Video
Minicourse at the 11th School on Astrophysics and Gravitation (Lisbon) website
The material for the xAct crash course I’ve given can be found here website