Principal Investigator (Scientific Employment Stimulus) at the Science Faculty of the University of Lisbon

Researcher at the Instituto de Astrofisica e Ciencias do Espaco.

Previously, Investigador FCT (Principal Investigator) at the Science Faculty of the University of Lisbon.

Member of the Cosmology Group and Group of Cosmology and Gravitational Physics

Previously, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth.

MSc and PhD degrees by the Science Faculty of the University of Lisbon.

Publications (arXiv, INSPIRE, Researchgate, NASA ADS Database, Google Scholar)

Title: Wormholes, warp drives and energy conditions
Editor: Francisco S. N. Lobo
Springer Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics, Vol. 189
ISBN 978-3-319-55181-4.
 

Title: Extensions of f(R) gravity: Curvature-matter couplings and hybrid metric-Palatini gravity
Authors: Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics  https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108645683

Cosmological tests of gravitation, EXPL/FIS-AST/1608/2013 - (PI: Nelson J. Nunes).

Late-time cosmic acceleration: Dark energy and modified gravity, CERN/FP/123615/2011 - (PI: Francisco S.N. Lobo).

Cosmology with varying costants, CERN/FP/123618/2011 - (PI: Jose P. Mimoso).

Late-time cosmic acceleration: Dark energy and modified gravity, CERN/FP/116398/2010 - (PI: Francisco S.N. Lobo).

Late-time cosmic acceleration: Dark energy and modified gravity, CERN/FP/109381/2009 - (PI: Francisco S.N. Lobo, final report).

Cosmology with coupled components, PTDC/FIS/102742/2008 - (PI: Jose P. Mimoso).

The Primordial Universe and dark energy, Programa Pessoa 2010/2011 - Portugal/France Cooperation - (Portuguese Coordinator: Jose P. Mimoso).

Scientific American: Solar System tests of Horava gravity

New Scientist: Comments on Time Machine at the LHC (pdf)

New Scientist: Comments on cosmic time machine (pdf)

New Scientist: Pioneer anomaly - Extra force in modified gravity

New Scientist: Dark energy stars

National Geographic: Wormoles and time travel

International Herald Tribune: Back to the future: Seeking a refined theory of time

New York Times: Remembrance of Things Future: The Mystery of Time

Modified theories of gravity

Dark energy models

Averaged cosmologies

Brane Cosmology

Exact Solutions to the Einstein Field Equations

Lorentzian Wormholes and the Causal Structure of Spacetime

Energy Conditions and Closed Timelike Curves

Black Holes and Cosmology

Analogue models

Quantum Inequalities and Quantum Field Theory