The Portuguese Society on Relativity and Gravitation (SPRG) has awarded the second edition of the Alberto prize to Miguel Zilhão, former postdoc at ICCUB, for his contributions to the study of numerical relativity, including black hole collisions in four and higher dimensions and the AdS-CFT correspondence. The study, which was mostly made during Zilhao's staying at ICCUB (2014-2017), has been published as a set of articles in peer reviewed journals such as the Journal of High Energy Physics and Physical Review D.

The SPRG award is granted yearly at the traditional Black Holes Workshop to a young researcher who is a member of the Society. Miguel Zilhão is a young physicist from Porto, Portugal, working in numerical relativity and computational physics. He completed his PhD degree in 2012, under the supervision of Profs. Carlos Herdeiro and Vitor Cardoso. He moved on to a postdoctoral position at CCRG-RIT, Rochester, with Prof. Manuela Campanelli, and then to Universitat de Barcelona (Department of Quantum Physics and Astrophysics & ICCUB), under the supervision of Prof. David Mateos. Since September 2017 he has been an FCT researcher at CENTRA-IST, Lisbon.

Published articles

https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.124072
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FJHEP10%282016%29155
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FJHEP01%282017%29026
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FJHEP06%282017%29129