Laura and Nicola are Masters!

This week, my first two master students, Nicola Franchini and Laura Sberna, have defended their theses, and obtained a master degree (MSc in Astrophysics and in Physics, respectively) at Sapienza with maximum marks!

Nicola's thesis is entitled "Constraining Black Holes with Light Bosonic Hair Using Quasi-periodic Oscillations", whereas Laura's thesis is entitled "Early-Universe Cosmology in Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet Gravity"

Little time to celebrate for them: Laura is moving to the Perimeter Institute to start a PhD with Neil Turok, whereas Nicola is already at the University of Nottingham and just started a PhD with Thomas Sotiriou.
Kudos to them and good luck!

Celebrating Laura's "laurea" in front of the Physics Building "Edificio Marconi" at Sapienza. 
Elisa (on the left) is next on the line to finish her thesis.

Richard Brito's got a PhD!

Richard Brito (IST, Lisbon) successfully defended his PhD thesis, entitled "Fundamental fields around compact objects: Massive spin-2 fields, Superradiant instabilities and Stars with dark matter cores" with Vitor Cardoso and myself as supervisor and co-supervisor, respectively.

Richard was awarded a PhD with Distinction and Honours (the jury members were Eugeny Babichev, Carlos Herdeiro, José Lemos and José Natário) and is now moving to the Albert Einstein Institute in Potsdam as a postdoctoral fellow. Kudos Richard!

Richard Brito right after his PhD thesis defense, with supervisor Vitor Cardoso and jury members (from the left: Carlos Herdeiro, Eugeny Babichev, Vitor, Richard, Jose' Lemos, Jose' Natario)

New Doctor Philosophiae on the market!

Well, not really since Helvi (who just defended her Ph.D. thesis two days ago) is moving to Cambridge in one week!

 Congrats Helvi and good luck!