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Richard Pires Brito
Curriculum Vitae
Updated on May 6, 2015
Personal Data
Present position
Education
CENTRA/Dept. F´ısica IST
Av. Rovisco Pais, 1
1049-001 Lisboa (PT)
Date of Birth: 23rd January 1989
Nationality: Portuguese
Phone: +351 218417518
e-mail: richard.brito@ist.utl.pt
Personal webpage: http://richardbrito.weebly.com/
Ph.D. fellow, CENTRA/Instituto Superior T´ecnico, Lisboa, Portugal, since January 2013.
CENTRA/Instituto Superior T´
ecnico, Lisboa, Portugal
Department of Physics
Ph.D. degree in Physics, began in January 2013
• Supervisor: Dr. Vitor Cardoso
• Co-Supervisor: Dr. Paolo Pani
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Visiting Graduate Fellow, May 2014 to October 2014
CENTRA/Instituto Superior T´
ecnico, Lisboa, Portugal
Department of Physics
Master’s degree-Msc. in Physics Engineering, September 2010 to November 2012
Grade: 18/20
• Dissertation Topic: “Dynamics around black holes: Radiation Emission and Tidal Effects”
(arXiv:1211.1679 [gr-qc])
• Supervisor: Dr. Vitor Cardoso
Universita’ degli studi di Padova, Padova, Italy
Erasmus Student, March-July 2011
Instituto Superior T´
ecnico, Lisboa, Portugal
Undergraduate diploma in Physics Engineering, September 2007 to July 2010
Grade: 16/20
Research
Interests
Fellowships &
Awards
Gravitational and high-energy physics. Modified theories of gravity. Black Hole physics.
• Prize for 3rd Best poster at the 558. WE-Heraeus-Seminar on ”The strong gravity regime of
black holes and neutron stars” in Bad Honnef, April 2014
• Visiting Graduate Fellow at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, May 2014 to
October 2014
• Gulbenkian Prize for Young Researchers with the project entitled “Weighing Einstein’s Messengers” in the context of the Program for the Stimulus of Creativity and Quality in Scientic
Research, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2014
• Ph.D. Scholarship in the framework of the FCT-IDPASC program, since January 2013
• Scientific Initiation Fellowship from CENTRA (IST), June 2012 to November 2012
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• Erasmus Fellowship, European Union Lifelong Learning Programme, March 2011 to July 2011
• Integration into Research Fellowship from the Mathematical Physics Group (UL), October
2009 to September 2010
Publications
Monographs
An up-to-date list of my publications can be found on the INSPIRE database (link).
1 R. Brito, V. Cardoso, and P. Pani, “Superradiance”, Lecture Notes in Physics, book to be
published by Springer-Verlag, (2015), arXiv:1501.06570 [gr-qc].
Submitted
11 J. Casanellas, J. Afonso, R. Brito, “Compact radio sources at very high redshifts as tracers of
the first massive black holes”
10 V. Cardoso, R. Brito, J. L. Rosa, “Superradiance in stars”
9 E. Babichev, R. Brito, “Black holes in massive gravity”, arXiv:1503.07529 [gr-qc]
8 E. Berti, R. Brito, and V. Cardoso, “Ultra-high-energy debris from the collisional Penrose
process”, arXiv:1410.8534 [gr-qc]
Refereed publications
7 R. Brito, V. Cardoso, and P. Pani, “Black holes as particle detectors: evolution of superradiant
instabilities”, accepted in CQG for a Focus Issue on “Black holes and fundamental fields”,
arXiv:1411.0686 [gr-qc]
6 R. Brito, A. Terrana, M. C. Johnson and V. Cardoso, “Nonlinear dynamical stability of infrared
modifications of gravity”, Phys. Rev. D 90, 124035 (2014); arXiv:1409.0886[hep-th]
5 R. Brito, V. Cardoso, and P. Pani, “Superradiant instability of black holes immersed in a
magnetic field”, Phys. Rev. D 89, 104045 (2014); arXiv:1405.2098[gr-qc]
4 R. Brito, V. Cardoso, and P. Pani, “Black holes with massive graviton hair”, Phys. Rev. D
88, 064006 (2013); arXiv:1309.0818[gr-qc]
3 R. Brito, V. Cardoso, and P. Pani, “Partially massless gravitons do not destroy general relativity black holes”, Phys. Rev. D 87, 124024 (2013); arXiv:1306.0908[gr-qc].
2 R. Brito, V. Cardoso, and P. Pani, “Massive spin-2 fields on black hole spacetimes: Instability
of the Schwarzschild and Kerr solutions and bounds on graviton mass”, Phys. Rev. D 88,
023514 (2013); arXiv:1304.6725[gr-qc].
1 R. Brito, V. Cardoso, and P. Pani, “Tidal effects around higher-dimensional black holes”,
Phys. Rev. D 86, 024032 (2012); arXiv:1207.0504[gr-qc].
Visits
• Visitor, June 2013 & May 2015, Universidade Federal de Bel´em do Par´
a, Bel´em (Brazil)
I visited Luis Crispino’s group during one week within a collaboration between the Instituto
Superior T´ecnico and the Universidade Federal de Bel´em do Par´a.
• Visitor, May- October 2014, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (Canada)
From May 2014 to October 2014 I was a visitor at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical
Physics within the Institute’s Visiting Graduate Fellowship program.
Training
experience
• 2014 to present – Co-advisor of Jo˜
ao Lu´ıs, (master student), Instituto Superior T´ecnico.
Teaching
experience
• May 2015 – Minicourse on Superradiance: Energy Extraction and Black hole bombs,
IV Amazonian Workshop on Black Holes and Analogue Models of Gravity
Federal University of Par´a, Bel´em.
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Talks
Invited
• Black holes and stars as particle detector
IV Amazonian Workshop on Black Holes and Analogue Models of Gravity
Federal University of Par´a, Bel´em, Brazil, May 2015
• Black holes and stars as particle detectors
DAMTP Seminar Series
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, 24th April 2015
• Superradiant instability of black holes immersed in a magnetic field
Dept. Physics Seminar
Universade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, 23rd April 2014
• Weighing Einstein’s Messengers
Dept. Physics Colloquium
Instituto Superior T´ecnico, Lisbon, Portugal, 26th March 2014
• Massive gravity and bimetric theories of gravity
Mons Meeting on gravity
University of Mons, Mons, Belgium, 17th July 2013
• Massive spin-2 fields on black hole spacetimes
II Amazonian Workshop on Black Holes and Analogue Models of Gravity
Federal University of Par´a, Bel´em, Brazil, 5th June 2013
Contributed
• Black holes as particle detectors
VII Black Holes Workshop
Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, 18th December 2014
• Massive gravitons vs Black holes
VI Black Holes Workshop
Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal, 20th December 2013
• Tidal effects around higher-dimensional black holes
V Black Holes Workshop
Instituto Superior T´ecnico, Lisbon, Portugal, 18th December 2012
• Quantification of dynamical systems and the problem of time
Final seminar of the integration into research fellowships program
Mathematical Physics Group (UL), Lisbon, Portugal, 11th November 2010
Poster sessions
• Black Holes Vs Massive gravitons: Instabilities and Hairy solutions
558. WE-Heraeus-Seminar on ”The strong gravity regime of black holes and neutron stars”
Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Bad Honnef, Germany, 31 March to 4 April 2014
Awarded the 3rd Best poster prize.
• Massive spin-2 fields on black hole spacetimes
20th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (GR20)
University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, 7-13 July 2013
Workshop
organization
• 21-22 December 2015 – VIII Black Holes Workshop, Instituto Superior T´ecnico, Lisbon
(link).
• 23-24 July 2015 – XXV ENAA (Encontro Nacional de Astronomia e Astrofsica)
2015, Instituto Superior T´ecnico, Lisbon (link).
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• 10-12 June 2015 – One Hundred Years of Strong Gravity, Instituto Superior T´ecnico,
Lisbon (link).
Referee activity
I am referee for the following international journals:
• since 2015 - Classical and Quantum Gravity
• since 2014 - International Journal of Modern Physics D; Canadian Journal of Physics;
General Relativity and Gravitation
Popular Science
articles
1 R. Brito, V. Cardoso, and P. Pani, “The Century of Strong Gravity”, to appear in IST Physics
Magazine “Pulsar” and in the Portuguese Physics Magazine “Gazeta de Fisica”, (2015) Link
to the english version: link. Link to the portuguese version: link.
Languages
• English - Fluent
• Portuguese - Native
• French - Native
• Italian - Intermediate
Computer Skills
• Programming: C and C++, some knowledge of MPI (Message Passing Interface)
• Scientific Software: Mathematica
• Other softwares: LATEX
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