Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Carla Rodrigues Almeida studied mathematics at the Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), Brazil, and got her master’s degree in pure mathematics in 2013, with concentrations in geometry and topology. Afterwards, she obtained her PhD in physics in 2017 with a thesis on quantum cosmology, also at the UFES. She was a Junior Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from October 2017 until February 2018. She is currently a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at MPIWG with a research project on the History of Black Holes Physics, working in collaboration with Senior Researcher Jean Eisenstaedt from the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS).
A brief history of black holes
Dec 30, 2018 23:01 pm UTC| Science
Late in 2018, the gravitational wave observatory, LIGO, announced that they had detected the most distant and massive source of ripples of spacetime ever monitored: waves triggered by pairs of black holes colliding in deep...
A sustainable future begins at ground level
Canada needs a national strategy for homeless refugee claimants
An eclipse for everyone – how visually impaired students can ‘get a feel for’ eclipses