Where am I?

2024

• February 24-March 1: Holidays in South Africa.
• February 19-23: MeerKAT@5 meeting, Stellenbosch, South Africa.


• January 14-17: IMPRS Retreat, Schloß Ringberg, Bavaria, Germany.

2023

• December 23 - January 1: Holidays in Portugal.


• December 11-16: Colloquium and collaborative work at NYU Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.


• August 26 - September 11: Holidays in Portugal.


• June 23 - 25: Short trip to Portugal.


• June 8: Day in Liège, Belgium


• April 19 - 20: 16th BONN Workshop on the FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF NEUTRON STARS: The many faces of NSs: emission from gamma-rays to radio and gravitational waves, Bonn, Germany


• April 1 - 9: Holidays in London, UK. I went to Darwin's house!


• February 18 - March 12: Holidays in Taiwan and Japan.

2022

• December 18 - January 1 2023: Holidays in Portugal.


• August 29: 15th BONN Workshop on the FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF NEUTRON STARS: Neutron stars and their local environments, Bonn, Germany


• July 25 - 29: Towards Real-Time Galactic Dynamics, Lorentz Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.


• July 6 - 20: Holidays in Portugal.


• June 10 - 20: Holidays in the Venice region, Italy.


• April 8 - 17: Easter holidays in Portugal.


• January 30 - February 6: Moriond Gravitation 2022, (Rencontres de Moriond), La Thuile, Val d'Aosta, Italy.

2021

• December 17 - January 3 2022: Holidays in Portugal.


• October 30 - November 7: Holidays in Vienna, Austria.


• August 13 - 30: Holidays in Portugal.

2020

• December 20 - January 6 2021: Holidays in Portugal.


• July 4 - 25: Holidays in Portugal.


• May 25 - 30: Holidays in Berlin.


• February 17: 14th BONN Workshop on the FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF NEUTRON STARS: Peculiar supernovae and neutron stars, Bonn, Germany

2019

• Dec. 20 - January 5 2020: Holidays in Portugal.


• Dec. 4 - 7: Prague Multimessenger 2019 Winter Workshop.


• Nov. 4 - 8: Scintillometry 2019, MPIfR, Bonn, Germany.


• October 30, 31: LOFAR PC Cycle 13 meeting, Dwingeloo, the Netherlands.


• Sept. 1 - 8: Collaborative work at Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.


• June 14 - 17: Attending wedding in Portugal.


• May 30 - June 11: Holidays in California.


• May 12 - 15: Multi-messenger astronomy with SKA precursors and pathfinders: A capacity building workshop, Aveiro, Portugal.


• May 2: Ph.D. Examination, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.


• April 24 - 26: LOFAR PC Cycle 12 meeting, Dwingeloo, the Netherlands.
• April 20 - 23: Seminar at NYU Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.


• April 1 - 3: MADMAX collaboration meeting, Hamburg, Germany.


• February 1 - 16: Holidays in Taiwan.


• January 15 - 20: ``Tests of Gravity'' meeting, plus weekend, Athens, Greece.

2018

• December 21 - January 6 2019: Holidays in Portugal.


• November 5 - 17: Observations with the MeerKAT array, Cape Town, South Africa.


• October 18, 19: LOFAR PC Cycle 11 meeting, Dwingeloo, the Netherlands.


• July 21 - 22: COSPAR 2018 42nd Assembly | 60th Anniversary, Pasadena, California, USA.
• July 18 - 20: Frontiers of the Physics of Massive Stars: From the main sequence to LIGO, Ensenada, Mexico
• July 14 - 17: COSPAR 2018 42nd Assembly | 60th Anniversary, Pasadena, California, USA.


• July 4 - 10: My grandmother's 100th birthday party! (Gondomar, Portugal)


• May 26 - 27: Cherry and Mael's wedding, Chateau de Breteuil, Chevreuse, France.


• May 19 - 20: Ann and Jason's wedding, Copenhagen, Denmark.


• May 14: 12th BONN Workshop on the FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF NEUTRON STARS: The structure and composition of neutron stars, Bonn, Germany


• Apr. 28 - May 12: Holidays in Denver and further West, USA.


• April 24, 25: LOFAR PC Cycle 10 meeting, Dwingeloo, the Netherlands.


• April 12, 13: Neutron Stars in Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.


• March 26, 27: Gravity data meeting, Oxford, UK.


• February 3 - 17: Holidays in Taiwan.


• January 10 - 18: Visit NCRA, Pune, India.

2017

• December 22 - January 4 2018: Christmas and New Year Holidays in Portugal.


• Dec. 11 -12: 11th BONN workshop on - FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF NEUTRON STARS: Neutron stars in Future Research, Bonn, Gewrmany


• October 25, 26: LOFAR PC Cycle 9 meeting, Dwingeloo, the Netherlands.


• October 23: Jury of Guillaume Voisin's Thesis defense, Paris, France.


• October 18/19: MADMAX meeting, Hamburg.


• September 14-15: IMPRS summer school, Heidelberg, Germany.


• August 27 - September 2: 3rd Azores School on Observational Cosmology, Angra do Heroísmo, Terçeira, Azores, Portugal.


• August 17 - 19: eXtreme Matter meets eXtreme Gravity, Bozeman, Montana, USA.
• August 12 - 16: Holidays in New York City, USA.


• July 27 - August 3: Holidays in Portugal.


• May 30 - June 2: Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop 2017, Annecy, France.


• April 25, 26: LOFAR PC Cycle 8 meeting, Dwingeloo, the Netherlands.


• April 12 - 19: Holidays in Portugal.


• March 22 - 24: Colloquium at CERN, collaborative work.


• February 25 - March 11: Holidays in Taiwan.


• January 15 - 21: Neutron star mergers: From gravitational waves to nucleosynthesis, Hirschegg, Kleinwalsertal, Austria.

2016

• Dec. 23 - January 4 2017: Holidays in Portugal.


• December 5 - 9: Gravity and Experiment workshop, Paris, France.


• November 14: Tenth BONN workshop on - FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF NEUTRON STARS: Supernovae and Formation of Neutron Stars, Bonn, Germany.


• November 7, 8: LOFAR PC Cycle 7 meeting, Dwingeloo, the Netherlands.


• October 31 - November 4: ``Compact stars and Gravitational Waves'', Kyoto, Japan.


• October 26 - 29: WE Heraeus Seminar: ``Neutron Stars: A cosmic laboratory for matter under extreme conditions'', Bad Honnef, Germany.


• October 12: Colloquium at the Albert Einstein Institute, in Potsdam, Germany.


• October 1 - 3: Long weekend in Amsterdam.


• September 19 - 22: Scintillometry workshop, Bonn, Germany.


• September 12 - 15: Spanish-Portuguese Relativity Meeting (ERE2016): 100 years of the Schwarzschild solution, Lisbon, Portugal.
• September 5 - 9: New CompStar School 2016: "Neutron Stars: Gravitational Physics, Theory and Observations, Coimbra, Portugal


• July 30 - August 7: Holidays in Portugal.


• June 20: Ninth BONN workshop on FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF NEUTRON STARS: Neutron Stars at all Wavelengths, Bonn, Germany.


• May 23-26: ``The first observation of a binary black hole merger: Status and future prospects'', Hannover, Germany.


• May 7 - 16: Holidays in Portugal, includding my wedding ceremony.


• March 19 - April 5: Engagement ceremony in Taiwan, Honeymoon in Japan.


• January 17 - 23: QCD matter: dense and hot, Hirschegg, Kleinwalsertal, Austria.

2015

• December 31 - January 6 2016: New Year Holidays in Portugal.


• December 8-9: SFB Begutachtung, Tübingen, Germany.


• November 30 - December 1: Rehearsing presentations for SFB, Tübingen, Germany.


• November 26: Sander ter Veen's Thesis defense at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.


• November 18 - 22: Trip to Portugal.


• October 5 - November 6: Stay at Orléans, France.
• November 4: Workshop on pulsars at the Observatory of Paris at Meudon.
• October 29: Talk at the Observatory of Paris at Meudon.


• September 21 - 23: Visit to Taipei, Taiwan.


• September 7 - 18: THE MANY FACES OF NEUTRON STARS, Garching, Germany.


• September 3: Heraeus Summer School 2015, Jena, Germany.


• July 23 - August 5: Summer Holidays in Portugal.


• July 12 - 18: Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Rome, Italy.


• June 30 - July 2: The Neutron Star Radius, And All That Jazz, Montreal, Canada.


• May 27 - 30: 591. WE-Heraeus-Seminar: Astrophysics, Clocks and Fundamental Constants, Bad Honnef, Germany.


• May 18: Seventh BONN workshop on FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF NEUTRON STARS: Fast Radio Bursts and Neutron Star Transients, Bonn, Germany.


• May 14 - 17: Holidays in Paris.
• May 11 - 13: Workshop on pulsars and their environments, Orléans, France.


• May 2 -3: Holidays in Dresden, Germany.


• April 21: Visit to ESTEC, Noordwijk, the Netherlands.


• March 27 - April 7: Easter Holidays in Portugal.


• March 21 - 25: Gravitation: 100 years after GR (Rencontres de Moriond), La Thuile, Val d'Aosta, Italy.


• February 15 - 25: Chinese New Year in Taiwan!


• January 20 - 23: Visiting the University of Texas in Brownsville, Texas, USA.
• January 12 - 19: Working a the Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico, USA.

2014

• December 20 - January 4 2015: Christmas Holidays in Portugal.


• December 1 - 5: Workshop on Gravitational Wave Astronomy, Jena, Germany.


• October 31: Colloquium at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany.


• October 27: Sixth BONN workshop on FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF NEUTRON STARS: Origin and Evolution of Neutron Star B-fields, Bonn, Germany.


• October 23: Colloquium at Carl von Ossietzky Universität, Oldenburg, Germany.


• September 9 - 16: Holidays in Switzerland.


• July 19 - 29: Summer Holidays in Portugal.


• June 16 - 20: ``Extreme Astrophysics in an Ever-Changing Universe: Time-Domain astronomy in the 21st Century", Ierapetra, Crete, Greece.


• April 28 - May 1: Meeting on scintillometry at Algonquin Observatory, Ontario, Canada.
• April 25: Colloquium at the University of Toronto, Canada


• April 16 - 22: Easter Holidays in Portugal.*


• March 31 - April 4: 558. WE-Heraeus-Seminar: The Strong Gravity Regime of Black Holes and Neutron Stars, Bad Honnef, Germany.


• March 24 - 28: The Structure and Signals of Neutron Stars, from Birth to Death, Florence, Italy.
• March 19 - 23: Holidays in Tuscany, Italy.


• March 5: Fifth BONN workshop on FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF NEUTRON STARS: Final Fate of Massive Stars, Bonn, Germany.


• February 12 - 13: German SKA Science Meeting, Bielefeld, Germany.


• January 11 - 18: Holidays in Arizona, USA
• January 4 - 10: Testing General Relativity with Astrophysical Observations, Oxford, Mississippi, USA.

2013

• December 21 - January 3 2014: Christmas and New Year vacations in Portugal.


• December 16: Fourth BONN workshop on FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF NEUTRON STARS: Neutron Stars in Globular Clusters and Triples, Bonn, Germany.


• October 30 - November 8: working a the Arecibo Observatory, in Puerto Rico.
• October 27 - 29: Symposium ``50 Years of Scientific Achievement and Future Directions at Arecibo Observatory" at the Arecibo Observatory, Arecibo, Puerto Rico, USA.


• October 15 - 17: From Quantum to Cosmos 6, Nice, France.


• September 30 - October 4: Neutron-rich matter and neutron stars, Trento, Italy.


• September 23: Colloquium at the University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal.
• September 19 - 22: Short vacation in Portugal.
• September 16 - 18: "Modified Gravity Theories: Beyond Einstein's Legacy", Lisbon, Portugal.


• September 4 - 9: Short vacation in Bavaria, Germany.


• July 26 - 30: Short vacation in Portugal.


• July 7 - 13: 20th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation / 10th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves, Warsaw, Poland.


• May 17 - June 2: Visits to the Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, Wyoming, USA.


• April 15: Third BONN workshop on FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF NEUTRON STARS: Gravitational Waves and Gravity Tests, Bonn, Germany.


• March 27 - April 8: Easter vacation in mainland Portugal, plus trip to Madeira.


• March 14 - 17: Attending Evan Keane's wedding, Manchester, UK.


• January 19 - 24: Physical Applications of Millisecond Pulsars, Aspen, Colorado, USA.


• January 14 - 18: X-ray Binaries 13, Bormio, Italy.

2012

• December 21 - January 6 2013: Christmas and New Year vacation in Portugal.


• October 9 - 12: from quantum to cosmos 5 meeting, Cologne, Germany.


• September 10 - 14: Compact Binaries in Globular Clusters meeting, Lorentz Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.


• September 6: Human Capital Development: Researcher Mobility and Training Programmes workshop, South African Mission to the EU, Brussels, Belgium.


• August 18 - 25: IAU XXVII General Assembly, Beijing, China


• July 26 - August 2: Vacations in Portugal


• July 1 - 7: 13th Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden


• June 19: Colloquium at Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.


• May 25 - June 10: Vacations in California, USA.


• March 30 - April 9: Vacation in Bonn, Mosel Valley and Belgium with my parents!


• March 27 - 29: UK-Germany National Astronomy Meeting NAM2012, Manchester, England.
• March 15 - 29: 47 Tucanae data reduction, Manchester, England
• March 8 - 14: Vacations in London, England

2011

• December 21 - January 4 2012: Christmas and New Year vacation in Portugal


• October 28 - November 2: Vacations in Portugal.


• October 4 - 14: Vacations in Turkey


• September 14 - 17: EPTA Meeting, Schloß Ringberg, Bavaria, Germany


• July 19 - August 7: Vacations in Russia - Moscow and the Kamchatka Peninsula!!


• July 8 - 11: Vacations in Portugal.


• June 10 - 14: Vacations in Portugal.
• June 6 - 9: GREAT-ESF Workshop: QSO Astrophysics, Fundamental physics, and Astrometric Cosmology in the Gaia era, Porto, Portugal.
  News from last day: ERC Grant application successful!
• June 1 - 5: Vacations in Portugal.


• May 4 - 5: ERC Grant Interview, Brussels, Belgium.


• April 17 - 26: Easter vacation in Portugal.


• March 23 - 27: Vacation in San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA.
• March 18 - 22: Fab 5 Pulsar Conference Meeting, Arecibo, Puerto Rico, USA.

2010

• December 17 - January 2 2011: Christmas and New Year vacation in Portugal


• December 15 - 16: Talk at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt, Germany.


• November 17 - 24: Vacations in the USA.


• November 14 - 16: Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics, Hannover, Germany.


• October 24 - November 1: Traveling around Germany with my Parents


• October 10 - 15: PULSAR CONFERENCE 2010, Chia Laguna, Sardinia, Italy.


• September 14 - 17: AG2010, Bonn, Germany.


• September 7 - 12: The European Week of Astronomy and Space Science, Lisbon, Portugal.


• August 5 - 31: Norway and Svalbard*.


• July 25 - August 2: Portugal.


• July 18 - 21: 38th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Bremen, Germany.


• May 21: "Pulsars as tools for studying fundamental physics". Talk at the university of Aveiro, Portugal.
• May 19 - 26: Portugal.


• May 18: "Pulsars as tools for studying fundamental physics". Talk at ASTRON, Dwingeloo, the Netherlands.


• April 17 - 20: Attempting to return to Bonn (and finally succeeding)!
• April 12 - 16: Workshop on the High Energy Emission form Pulsars and their Systems, Sant Cugat, Catalonia, Spain
• April 8 - 11: Exploring Catalunya, Spain.*


• April 1 - 5: Portugal.

2009

• December 20 - January 4 : Christmas and New Year vacation in Portugal (but most of the time working on a couple of papers!).


• December 10, 11: Arecibo Surveys Meeting, Arecibo, PR, USA.


• October 23 - November 1 : Portugal (but most of the time working on a couple of papers!).


• September 21-22 : FP7 seminar in Dortmund, Germany.


• July 24-26 : Weekend with family in Portugal.


• July 12-18 : 12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Paris, France (invited talk).


• July 1: Start working at the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, in Bonn, Germany.


• May 30 - June 10: Alaska Cruise, followed by hiking in the Olympic National Park.*


• May 5 - 9: Visiting Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, USA.


• March 30 - April 4: Gamma Ray Bursts and Neutron Stars: Recent Developments and Future Directions, Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt (invited talk).


• March 27: Back to West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA.


• January 22-24: Hirschegg 2009: Nuclear Matter at High Density, Hirschegg, Austria (invited talk).
• January 19-20: Gravitational Wave and Data Analysis Workshop 13, San Juan, PR, USA.
• January 18: LSC-Virgo Neutron Star Meeting, San Juan, PR, USA.


• January 11: Back to the Arecibo Observatory, Arecibo, PR, USA.

2008

• December 22 - January 7 2009: Christmas and New Year vacation in Portugal.


• December 8 - 12: 24th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Vancouver BC, Canada (invited talk)


• November 25 - 29: Traveling in South Dakota and Wyoming.


• October 3 - 11: Vacationing in New Mexico


• August 12: Started working at West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV. Staying here until December.


• August 1 - 2: International Pulsar Timing Array Meeting, Arecibo Observatory, Arecibo, PR.


• June 26 - July 8: NRAO Headquarters, Charlottesville, VA


• April 30 - May 14: Portugal


• April 9 - 12: Washington DC


• March 18 - 24: Hiking in Utah!


• March 8 - 11: Colloquium at the University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, Canada


• January 7-11: 211th AAS Meeting, Austin, TX

2007

• December 20 - January 3 2008: Christmas and New Year vacation in Portugal.
• December 17 - 20: Jodrell Bank Observatory, Cheshire, England.
• December 14 - 16: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA


• November 14 - 21: Visiting the Gunflint Chert region of Ontario.


• October 17 - 21: West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV


• September 21 - 22: First NANOGrav meeting, NRAO headquarters, Charlottesville, VA
• September 16 - 20: Vacationing in Virginia
• September 14 - 15: Chicago 3 Meeting, Washington DC
• September 12 - 13: Frontiers of Astronomy with the World's Largest Radio Telescope meeting, Washington DC
• August 30 - September 11: Portugal


• August 12 - 17: 40 Years of Pulsars, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.
• August 4 - 11: Processing data at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.


• June 9-12: Portugal
• June 8: University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K.


• April 23 - 24: Dominion Radio Astronomy Observatory, Penticton BC, Canada


• March 23 - April 16: Portugal
• March 7 - 23: Jodrell Bank Observatory, Cheshire, England


• February 17 - 24: Cruise in the Caribbean: Puerto Rico, St. Thomas, St. Maarten, Antigua, St. Lucia and Barbados (Ship: Serenade of the Seas, company: Royal Caribbean).


• January 5-10: 209th AAS Meeting, Seattle, WA

2006

• December 23 - January 2 2007: Christmas and New Year vacation in Portugal *


• September 7 - 20: Parkes Observatory, New South Wales, Australia
• August 31 - September 6: Swinburne University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• August 25 - 30: Parkes Observatory, New South Wales, Australia


• July 22 - August 7: Portugal*


• June 4 - 8: 208th AAS Meeting, Calgary, AB, Canada
• May 20 - June 3: Hiking in the Canadian Rockies, AB, Canada *


• January 7 - 12: 207th AAS Meeting, Washington DC

2005

• December 19 - January 6 2006: Portugal (I hope I'll be in regular e-mail contact)


• November 24 - 26: Culebra Island, Puerto Rico*


• September 28 - October 6: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
• September 17 - 27: Portugal *


• August 13 - 21: NRAO, Green Bank, WV


• July 6 -12: Nowhere - I'll just disappear in thin air for a few days*


• May 26: Colloqium at Northwestern University, Chicago, Il.
• May 22 - 25: Sightseeing in British Columbia, Canada*.
• May 19 - 21: 11th Canadian Conference on General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, Canada (invited talk)


• March 30 - April 17: Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope, Maharashtra, India


• March 18 - 25: Hiking in Arizona *, followed by talk at Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ


• January 22 - February 15: Parkes Observatory, New South Wales, Australia
• January 21 - 22: ATNF, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• January 14 - 19: Vacation in California*
• January 8 - 13: 205th AAS meeting, San Diego, CA

2004

• December 21 - January 5 2005: Christmas and New Year vacation in Lisbon, Portugal *
• December 1 - 20: Jodrell Bank Observatory, Cheshire, England


• November 16 - 22: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
• November 4 - 16: NRAO, Green Bank, WV


• August 12 - 22: Lake Superior, MN*


• June 26 - July 15: Parkes Observatory, New South Wales, Australia


• May 9 - 25: McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada


• April 23 - May 4: Lisbon, Portugal *


• January 11 - 19: Binary Pulsars Conference, Aspen, CO

2003

• December - January 5 2004: Christmas and New Year vacation in Lisbon, Portugal *(c)


• November 2 - 22: Parkes Observatory, New South Wales, Australia


• September 10 - 24: Iceland and Greenland *
• August 24 - September 9: Lisbon, Portugal *
• August 17 - 24: Caltech, Pasadena and Berkeley University, Berkeley CA
• August 9 - 17: School on Single-Dish Radio Astronomy: Techniques and Applications, Green Bank, WV


• August 1 - 4: Mona Island, Puerto Rico*


• June 10 - 20: McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada


• April 7 - 18: Lisbon, Portugal *


• February 7 - 25: Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope, Maharashtra, India

2002

• November 29 - December 6: Lisbon, Portugal *
• November 5 - 28: Jodrell Bank Observatory, Cheshire, England


• September 7 - 23: Lisbon, Portugal *
• September 5 - 7: Fourth International Workshop on New Worlds in Astroparticle Physics, Faro, Portugal
• August 30 - September 5: Lisbon, Portugal *
• August 26 - 29: Radio Pulsars Conference, Chania, Crete, Greece


• June 1 - 9: 200th AAS meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico


• April 17 - 30: Lisbon, Portugal *


• March 7 - 25: Parkes Observatory, New South Wales, Australia. Finished the Parkes Multibeam Survey!
• March 4 - 7: ATNF, Sydney, and IREX Award Pulsar Meeting 2002, Orange, New South Wales, Australia
• February 28 - March 3: Caltech, Pasadena CA


• January 5 - 11: 199th AAS Meeting, Washington DC

2001

• December 19 - January 2 2002: Christmas and New Year vacation in Lisbon, Portugal *


• September 30 - October 7: University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
• September 15 - 30: Lisbon, Portugal *
• September 1 - 16: Jodrell Bank Observatory, Cheshire, England


• August 3 - 6: Tortola Island, British Virgin Islands *


• July 13 - 16: St. John Island, US Virgin Islands *


• May 1: I start working at the Arecibo Observatory!