Mecânica Quântica: um primeiro curso

Carlos Alberto Ruivo Herdeiro is a coordinating researcher in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Aveiro and a prominent figure in theoretical physics in Portugal, with relevant contributions in strong gravity, cosmology and high energies. Graduated from the University of Porto, he completed his PhD in Theoretical Physics at Cambridge (DAMTP) in 2001 and obtained his Aggregation in 2012.

After a post-doctorate at Stanford University, he returned to Portugal, passing through the Universities of Porto, Aveiro and the Instituto Superior Técnico. Since 2019 he has been a coordinating researcher at the University of Aveiro, where he founded the gravitation group in 2010, today an international reference. He has published more than 240 articles, including 16 in Physical Review Letters, with more than 19,000 citations (h ≈ 70), and given more than 235 international lectures, most by invitation.

He coordinated 16 funded projects, supervised 25 doctorates and supervised 24 post-doctorates, in addition to being part of dozens of international evaluation panels. He taught more than 16 curricular units, is the author of a Quantum Mechanics manual and maintains intense publicity activities, with more than 120 lectures and regular presence in the media.

He is a founding member of the Portuguese Society of Relativity and Gravitation, where he held several positions. He was included among the 2% of most influential scientists in the world between 2021 and 2024, rising to the top 0.33% in 2025, and received distinctions such as the “Researcher Award from the University of Aveiro” (2022) and the title of Outstanding Referee from the American Physical Society (2021).