Jorge V. Rocha is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics at ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Portugal),
as well as a member of Centro de Astrofísica e Gravitação (CENTRA-IST). He obtained his PhD in 2008 from the University of
California Santa Barbara (USA), under the supervision of Prof. Joseph Polchinski. Previously he had completed the Licenciatura
degree in Technological Physics Engineering in 2002 at Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon (Portugal). He held postdoctoral
researcher positions at CENTRA-IST, from October 2008 to August 2015, and at the University of Barcelona, from October 2015
to October 2019, where he joined upon being granted an individual Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship. J. Rocha has published
33 articles in top internacional scientific journals, accumulating 1150+/1050+/850+ citations and h-index=18/17/16, according
to Google Scholar/Inspire/ISI Web of Knowledge. He has vast experience in oral communications: 30 invited seminars at universities
all around the globe (Belgium, Brazil, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Spain, UK, USA); 1 colloquium; 35+ talks at international scientific
meetings (including 4 as plenary or invited speaker); 7 mini-courses or lectures at summer schools. Rocha has been the PI
of one European research project, and the PI of one National research program, in addition to a member of another five projects.
He supervised 1 PhD and 3 Master students. J. Rocha was a member of the organizing committee for 7 workshops (4 of them international).
He has refereed over 110 articles for 18 major journals in the field. In the past 5 years he performed external reviewer duties
for several international funding agencies (USA, Israel, Chile, European Commission and France). He was the recipient of 3
prizes (including the first "prémio Alberto") and is a member of the Portuguese Society of Relativity and Gravitation, which
he currently presides. J. Rocha is an enthusiast of communicating with the general public and he regularly participates in
outreach activities. Jorge V. Rocha's field of expertise lies in Gravitation, both in its Classical and Quantum aspects,
but his interests are truly multidisciplinary. His main subject of research is currently focused on the study of black holes
and related solutions in the theory of General Relativity, as well as in many other well-motivated modified theories of gravity.
At an initial stage of his career he worked in Cosmology-related subjects (being an expert on the topic of cosmic strings)
and in High Energy Physics (mainly in its connections with black hole physics through the AdS/CFT correspondence). He has
developed and frequently uses analytic techniques in his research, but he also employs numerical methods. The most common
keywords in the research of J. Rocha are: General relativity; Alternative theories of gravitation; Black holes; Gravitational
colapse; Cosmic censorship; Gravitational waves; AdS/CFT correspondence; Holography; String theory; Cosmic strings.
