CV
General Information
| Full Name | Bruno Valeixo Bento |
| Current position | Postdoctoral Researcher (IFT—UAM), Madrid |
| Languages | Portuguese, English, Spanish, Russian |
Experience
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2023 - Present Postodoctoral Researcher
Instituto de Física Teórica, UAM-CSIC, Spain - String compactifications — string vacua, geometry of extra dimensions
- String-Cosmology — de Sitter vacua, Quintessence, accelerated expansion
- Black Holes/Gravitational Waves
- Swampland programme
Supervision
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2025-26 Léo Veissiere (IFT-UAM/LAPTh)
- String compactifications and time-dependent late-time accelerated expansion
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2024-25 Miquel Salicrú (UAM)
- Superradiant instabilities from warped KK gravitons
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2024-25 Nils Marion (IFT-UAM/ENS-Lyon)
- Gravitational waves from Binary Black Holes in Warped Compactifications
Education
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2023 PhD
University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK Supervisor: Susha Parameswaran
Thesis: The Gravity of Warped Throats de Sitter vacua and gravitational waves in Type IIB string theory
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2018 MSc
Imperial College London, London, UK Supervisor: Fay Dowker
Thesis: Causal Set Dynamics and The Problem of Time
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2017 BSc
Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal