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Supervision & Mentoring

Ph.D. Supervision (Mar. 2025 – present)
Mayara Hilgert Pacheco · Gravitational Wave Cosmology with Dark Sirens · INPE, São Paulo, Brazil

M.Sc. Supervision (Mar. 2024 – Mar. 2025)
Mayara Hilgert Pacheco · Determination of the Hubble Constant from Multi-messenger Astronomy Involving Gravitational Waves · INPE, São Paulo, Brazil

Honours & Awards

  • Honorable Mention — 2024 ICTP-SAIFR PhD Prize in Classical Gravity and Applications, ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research (2024)
  • Honorable Mention — Semana do PPGF 2021, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (2021)
  • Honorable Mention — Semana do PPGF 2020, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (2020)

Conferences & Seminars

2026

  • Cosmic Rhythms — CBPF, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Sep. 2026). Poster: Gravitational-Wave Cosmology with Simulated Galaxy Catalogs and Dark Sirens
  • Third generation gravitational wave detectors: the view from Latin America — Principia Institute, São Paulo, Brazil (Jun.–Jul. 2026). Oral Communication: Gravitational-Wave Cosmology Beyond the Fisher Matrix: The Derivative Approximation for Likelihoods
  • XVI Einstein Telescope Symposium — RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany (Jun. 2026). Oral Communication: Gravitational-Wave Inference Beyond the Fisher Approximation with DALI
  • Seminar — Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg University, Germany (Jun. 2026). Beyond the Fisher Approximation in Gravitational Wave Data Analysis
  • Seminar — INFN, Pisa, Italy (Mar. 2026). Beyond the Fisher Approximation in Gravitational Wave Data Analysis (funded by ACME)

2025

  • First International Latin American Conference on Gravitational Waves — São Paulo, Brazil (Sep. 2025). Oral Communication: Exploring the DALI Approximation in Gravitational Wave Data Analysis
  • V Joint ICTP-Trieste/ICTP-SAIFR School on Cosmology — São Paulo, Brazil (2025). Poster: Beyond Fisher Approach for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology
  • Seminar — UERJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2025). From Fisher to DALI: Advancing Gravitational-Wave Data Analysis

2024

  • III Workshop Antônio Brasil Batista — Espírito Santo, Brazil (2024). Oral Communication: GWDALI: Derivative Approximation for Gravitational Wave Likelihoods
  • VII CosmoSul — Bahia, Brazil (2024). Oral Communication: On the Derivative Approximation for Likelihoods of Standard Sirens
  • XIX Brazilian School of Cosmology and Gravitation — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2024). Poster: Derivative Approximation for Likelihoods on Gravitational Waves and Cosmology Using Autodiff
  • VII José Plínio Baptista School of Cosmology — Espírito Santo, Brazil (2024). Oral Communication: Beyond Gaussianity for Gravitational Wave Data Analysis at high-z Cosmology
  • Seminar — Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg University, Germany (2024, Remote). Derivative Approximation for Gravitational Wave Likelihoods
  • Seminar — Center for Astrophysics and Gravitation, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal (2024). GWDALI: Derivative Approximation for Gravitational Wave Likelihoods

2023

  • São Paulo Advanced School on Multi-Messenger Astrophysics — São Paulo, Brazil (2023). Oral Communication: GWDALI: a Fisher Matrix Based Software to Estimate Standard Sirens Parameters Beyond Gaussianity-Level

2022

  • Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop (GWPAW) — Australia (Remote, 2022). Poster: On the Distance Measurements of Bright Standard Sirens with 3G GW Detectors
  • Workshop on Classical Gravity and Applications, ICTP-SAIFR — São Paulo, Brazil (2022). Oral Communication: Late-Time Cosmology With Bright Standard Sirens
  • 25th Annual Int. Conference on Particle Physics and Cosmology (COSMO’22) — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2022). Oral Communication: Cosmology With Bright Standard Sirens

2021

  • 14th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves — Australia (Remote, 2021). Oral Communication: Forecasts on Cosmography With Gravitational Waves Using Einstein Telescope
  • Semana do PPGF-UFRN — Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil (2021). Oral Communication: Gravitational Waves Cosmology
  • XXXV Encontro de Física do Norte e Nordeste — Brazil (Remote, 2021). Oral Communication: Cosmologia das Ondas Gravitacionais

2020

  • Semana do PPGF-UFRN — Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil (2020). Oral Communication: Probing Dark Energy With Gravitational Waves

2018

  • IV José Plínio Baptista School on Cosmology — Espírito Santo, Brazil (2018). Oral Communication: Discriminating Cosmological Expansion Models With Third Generation GW Detectors

Education

Period Degree Institution
Oct. 2025 – present Postdoctoral Fellow PPG-Cosmo, UFES (Vitória, ES)
Jan. 2024 – Sep. 2025 Postdoctoral Fellow Instituto de Física, UFRJ (Rio de Janeiro)
Mar. 2019 – Jul. 2023 Ph.D. in Physics (Cosmology) UFRN (Rio Grande do Norte)
Mar. 2017 – Feb. 2019 M.Sc. in Physics (Cosmology) UFRN (Rio Grande do Norte)
Feb. 2012 – Dec. 2017 B.Sc. in Physics UFRN (Rio Grande do Norte)

Ph.D. Thesis: Late-Time Cosmology with Third Generation Gravitational Wave Observatories · Repository

M.Sc. Thesis: Discriminating cosmological expansion models with third generation gravitational wave detectors · Repository

Skills

Programming: Python · C/C++ · Git/GitHub · Docker · GitLab

Computing: High-Performance Computing (HPC) · Parallel Computing · Large-Scale Numerical Simulations

Languages: Portuguese (native) · English (C1) · Italian (A2)