PPGCosmo Highlights

Since its creation in 2016, PPGCosmo has established itself as a center of excellence in research and education, promoting significant scientific achievements by its students and faculty. The faculty includes CNPq research fellows (levels 1 and 2), researchers listed among the Top 2% Scientists in the World, and affiliated members of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC). This document presents these achievements in chronological order. Last updated: 17/05/2025.


2025

  • Two faculty members are currently serving as editors of the special issue of the journal Universe, celebrating its 10th anniversary.

  • A faculty member published an article in Physical Review Letters on a new technique to measure the spatial curvature of the Universe in a more robust and model-independent way, in collaboration with researchers from Italy and Germany. This work was featured by the Brazilian Physical Society (SBF).

  • A faculty member published an article in Physical Review Letters on recent results from the CONNIE experiment aimed at testing physics beyond the Standard Model. The new more stringent low-energy limits for models with fractional charge were enabled by the 2021 upgrade, with the installation of next-generation CCDs with substantial contribution from CBPF.

  • A student received a FAPES scholarship for an academic visit to the ELI Beamlines Laboratory, Czech Republic.


2024

  • A graduate published an article in Physical Review Letters with the first detection of the correlation between cosmic shear and the diffuse X-ray background, revealing how gas is distributed around dark matter halos. The article was featured in a Synopsis published by the Physics Magazine of the American Physical Society (APS).

  • A faculty member and their postdoc published an article in JHEAP identifying 3XMM J185246.6+003317 as a possible massive magnetar with a low surface magnetic field, suggesting new scenarios for stellar structure and superdense matter.

  • A graduate of the Program was invited to join the editorial board of the journal The Open Journal of Astrophysics.

  • A faculty member published an article in Physical Review Letters, making a significant contribution to astrophysics and multi-messenger studies. This work was featured by the Brazilian Physical Society (SBF).

  • A faculty member published an article in Physical Review Letters, advancing studies on black hole physics.

  • A graduate obtained a permanent Researcher I position at the CBPF.

  • A faculty member served as editor of the Handbook of Quantum Gravity, published by Springer.

  • A faculty member received the Carolina Nemes Award, granted by the Brazilian Physical Society for her outstanding contributions.

  • Two faculty members published an article in Nature on the unprecedented observation of a kilonova explosion associated with a long-duration gamma-ray burst, possibly resulting from the collision between a neutron star and a black hole outside the Milky Way. This work was featured by the Brazilian Physical Society (SBF).

  • A student received a FAPES scholarship for an academic visit to the Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomía, Argentina.

  • A student received a scholarship from ICTP Trieste for an academic visit to ICTP, Italy.


2023


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2020


2019


2018

  • Two faculty members published the article Absence of a Fundamental Acceleration Scale in Galaxies in Nature Astronomy.

  • A faculty member was awarded the Humboldt Fellowship to work at Heidelberg University.

  • A faculty member published the book Lecture Notes in Cosmology with Springer.

  • A faculty member became coordinator of the Large Scale Structure science group of the J-PAS collaboration.

  • A student received a scholarship from APS/SBF for an academic visit to Carnegie Mellon University, USA.

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2017

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

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