Francisco S. N. Lobo
Researcher

Email
fslobo@fc.ul.pt

Biographic notes
Personal Data:

• Researcher at the Centro de Astronomia e Astrofísica da Universidade de Lisboa (CAAUL).
• Previously, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth.

Ongoing Projects and Grants:

• Late-time cosmic acceleration: Dark energy and modified gravity, CERN/FP/116398/2010 - (PI: Francisco S.N. Lobo).
• Cosmology with coupled components, PTDC/FIS/102742/2008 - (PI: José P. Mimoso).
• The Primordial Universe and dark energy, Programa Pessoa 2010/2011 - Cooperação Portugal/França - (Portuguese Coordinator: José P. Mimoso).

Research Interests:
Averaged cosmologies;
Modified theories of gravity;
Dark energy models;
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

Publications
ADS

Lastest publications at IAT. Harko, T. S. Koivisto, F. S. N. Lobo, G. J. Olmo, D. Rubiera-Garcia, 2018,
Coupling matter in modified Q gravity,
Physical Review D, 98
>> AbstractJ. L. Rosa, J. P. S. Lemos, F. S. N. Lobo, 2018,
Wormholes in generalized hybrid metric-Palatini gravity obeying the matter null energy condition everywhere,
Physical Review D, 98
>> AbstractB. J. C. B. Barros, F. S. N. Lobo, 2018,
Wormhole geometries supported by three-form fields,
Physical Review D, 98
>> AbstractL. F. Barrientos, F. S. N. Lobo, S. Mendoza, G. J. Olmo, D. Rubiera-Garcia, 2018,
Metric-affine f(R,T) theories of gravity and their applications,
Physical Review D, 97, 9
>> AbstractO. Bertolami, C. F. V. Gomes, F. S. N. Lobo, and the Euclid collaboration, 2018,
Gravitational waves in theories with a non-minimal curvature-matter coupling,
European Physical Journal C - Particles and Fields, 2018
>> AbstractC. Bejarano, F. S. N. Lobo, G. J. Olmo, D. Rubiera-Garcia, 2017,
Palatini wormholes and energy conditions from the prism of general relativity,
The European Physical Journal C, 77, 776
>> Abstract