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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Giorgio Laverda

Citation names

  • Laverda, Giorgio

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
D117-DD21-FE90
ORCID iD
0000-0002-4739-4946

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Physical Sciences - Particles and Fields Physics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Italian (Mother tongue)
German Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2021/11/01 - 2025/10/31
Ongoing
Doctoral studies in Physics (Doutoramento)
Major in Physics
University of Lisbon - Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Scale symmetry, the Higgs and the Cosmos" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2017/04/01 - 2021/03/31
Concluded
Physics (Master)
Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg, Germany
"Scalar-tensor cosmology and the onset of weak gravity" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2013/10/01 - 2016/12/16
Concluded
Astronomy (Bachelor)
Major in Physics
Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
"Tidal effects on solar exoplanets" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2021/11/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
University of Lisbon - Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2021/11/01 - 2024/10/31 Scale Symmetry, the Higgs and the Cosmos
SHICO
PhD Student Fellow
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
Caixa d'Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona
Ongoing

Other

Designation Funders
2022/01/01 - 2023/10/01 Cosmological Impact of Gravitational Wave observations (COGWAy)
DRI/POLONIA/202109261/2022
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Outputs

Publications

Journal article
  1. Giorgio Laverda; Javier Rubio. "Ricci reheating reloaded". Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (2024): https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2024/03/033.
    10.1088/1475-7516/2024/03/033
  2. Maciej Kierkla; Giorgio Laverda; Marek Lewicki; Andreas Mantziris; Matteo Piani; Javier Rubio; Mateusz Zych. "From Hubble to Bubble". Journal of High Energy Physics (2023): https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2023)077.
    10.1007/JHEP11(2023)077
  3. Amendola, Luca; Giani, Leonardo; Laverda, Giorgio. "Ricci-inverse gravity: A novel alternative gravity, its flaws, and how to cure them". Physics Letters B 811 (2020): 135923. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135923.
    10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135923
  4. Wittner, Manuel; Laverda, Giorgio; Piattella, Oliver F.; Amendola, Luca. "Transient weak gravity in scalar-tensor theories". Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2020 07 (2020): 019-019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2020/07/019.
    10.1088/1475-7516/2020/07/019
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role
Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023/03/01 - 2023/06/30 Thinking Outside The Box: Towards Fermions on the Lattice
Supervisor
Engenharia Física Tecnológica (Degree)
University of Lisbon - Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022/03/01 - 2022/06/25 Using gravitational waves to constrain quintessential inflation models
Supervisor
Engenharia Física Tecnológica (Degree)
University of Lisbon - Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2023/12/03 - 2023/12/09 Tonale Winter School on Cosmology: I contributed in organising the winter school in several aspects, including local management of participants, as well as several preparatory tasks. (2023/12/03 - 2023/12/09)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg, Germany
2022/12/04 - 2022/12/10 Tonale Winter School on Cosmology: I contributed in organising the winter school in several aspects, including local management of participants, as well as several preparatory tasks. (2022/12/04 - 2022/12/10)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg, Germany

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2023/09/13 - 2023/09/16 Scalars 2023: I attended the conference talks and presented my own work in a parallel session. The title of the talk was “Hubble-induced Heating”. Scalars 2023
Uniwersytet Warszawski Instytut Fizyki Teoretycznej, Poland
2023/05/03 - 2023/05/05 Dark Matter and Stars Conference: I attended the plenary and parallel talks.
Workshop
Dark Matter and Stars
University of Lisbon - Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023/02/22 - 2023/02/22 I participated as a speaker to the Jornadas da Engenharia Fisica of the Insituto Superior Tecnico (Lisbon) where I gave a presentation about the physics of the early universe to bachelor and master students.
Workshop
Jornadas da Engenharia Fisica
University of Lisbon - Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022/11/29 - 2022/12/02 Canary Island Winter School on Astrophysics, Cosmology and Particle Physics: I had the opportunity to deepen my knowledge in several fields of research including dark matter and dark energy models, structure formation, observational constraints on cosmological observables. I also presented a poster and held a short talk on “Hubble-induced phase transitions during reheating".
Workshop
Canary Island Winter School on Astrophysics, Cosmology and Particle Physics
Universidad de La Laguna, Spain
2022/09/05 - 2022/09/09 CosmoLattice Summer School: I had the opportunity to learn directly from the developers many features of the lattice code CosmoLattice I am currently using. The school was an essential tool in understanding the code at a deeper level and gave me the knowledge on how to modify it according to the needs of my research.
Workshop
CosmoLattice Summer School
Universitat de València, Spain
2022/09/03 - 2022/09/03 CENTRA (Centre for Astrophysics and Gravitation) general meeting: I gave a brief presentation of the PhD research project during an internal meeting of all the researcher of the institute.
Meeting
CENTRA general meeting
University of Lisbon - Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022/04/11 - 2022/04/14 Heidelberg Physics Graduate Days: I attended lectures on several topics in physics, in particular on the Cosmic Microwave Background on particle physics beyond the standard model.
Workshop
Heidelberg Physics Graduate Days
Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg, Germany
2021/12/05 - 2021/12/10 15th Tonale Winter School on Cosmology: I attended a week-long winter school on current research topics in cosmology, namely "Testing fundamental physics with Gravitational Waves", "Cosmological N-Body Simulations" , "Statistics in Cosmology" and "Cosmology with SKA".
Workshop
15th Tonale Winter School on Cosmology
Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg, Germany

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022/09/01 - 2023/01/31 Teaching Assistant for the Astrophysics course of the Master program in Physics at IST (Lisbon) Engenharia Física Tecnológica (Mestrado integrado) University of Lisbon - Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2019/07/10 - 2019/07/10 Block course on "Testing Fundamental Physics with Cosmology": I participated in the teaching activities by presenting the topic of modified theories of gravity in a pedagogical introduction for master students. Testing fundamental physics with cosmology (Master) Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg, Germany

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2023/03/07 Interview by Público: I was interviewed as young "la Caixa" researcher by the Portuguese newspaper Público. In the interview, I briefly described my research field and its impact on our understanding of the fundamental building blocks of the Universe. Público

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2016/05/09 - 2016/05/09 Broadcasting the transit of Mercury: I organised the broadcasting of the transit of Mercury. The live-stream included interviews, presentations, Q&A sessions during the video transmission of the transit from the INAF observatory in Asiago (IT). Popular science and astrophysics