Alex Vañó-Viñuales
Relativity and Gravitation Group, IAC3, University of the Balearic Islands.
IAC3, Parc BIT
Carrer Blaise Pascal 6
Cra. Valldemossa km 7.4
07121 Palma de Mallorca
SPAIN
My field of research lies at the interface between numerical and mathematical relativity. Related to the hyperboloidal problem, which I approach with conformal compactification methods, I am interested in hyperbolic gauge conditions for 3+1 formulations of General Relativity and the description of black hole geometries using trumpet slices.
As founding member of the Hyperboloidal Research Network I aim to make the use of hyperboloidal foliations available to the numerical relativity community, while making progress in its application to simulations of compact binary coalescences.
I did my PhD at the University of the Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Spain). Then I held a postdoctoral position at Cardiff University (United Kingdom). After that took an FCT-funded postdoc position at GRIT, CENTRA and was invited professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon (Portugal). Currently I am a senior postdoc at IAC3 Institute of Applied Computing & Community Code, University of the Balearic Islands (Spain).
Selected publications
2025
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Hyperboloidal neutron star and black hole initial data in spherical symmetryJun 2025
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Hyperboloidal approach for linear and non-linear wave equations in FLRW spacetimesGen. Rel. Grav., Jun 2025
2024
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Spherical Evolution of the Generalized Harmonic Gauge Formulation of General Relativity on Compactified Hyperboloidal SlicesPhys. Rev. D, Dec 2024
2016
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Properties of the Binary Black Hole Merger GW150914Phys. Rev. Lett., Dec 2016