New fields, new interactions or any departure from the textbook description of gravity or particle physics might very well make their first appearance in the strong gravity regime. The main goal of WG3 is to create links between fundamental physics and black holes observations, in search of new physics. In particular it aims to:
(i) use data from observations (WG1) and modelling (WG2) in order to vindicate/disprove theoretical predictions regarding the structure and properties of BHs;
(ii) obtain novel predictions and use them to guide targeted observations and modelling;
(iii) act as a link between this COST action and other communities (e.g. cosmology and theoretical physics).
A key activity of WG3 will be the “Gravity Data Group” initiative, which will collect and comprehensively present all constraints on gravity theories. This initiative will be cross-disciplinary and open to nonmembers of the action.

Topic	Leader
WG3a: Testing the Black Holes hypothesis	Carlos Herdeiro herdeiro _at_ ua.pt
WG3b: Strong field parametrizations	Kent Yagi kyagi _at_ princeton.edu
WG3c: Black holes beyond General Relativity	Enrico Barausse barausse _at_ iap.fr
WG3d: Black hole perturbation theory and fundamental physics	Paolo Pani Paolo.Pani _at_ roma1.infn.it
WG3e: Binaries in alternative theories of gravity	Carlos Palenzuela carlos.palenzuela _at_ uib.es
WG3f: GW Data analysis beyond GR	Anuradha Samajdar a.samajdar _at_ nikhef.nl

 

Key Initiative: Gravity Data Group

 

 

WG3 Members:

Tiziano Abdelsalhin (Italy)

Victor Ambrus (Romania)
Charis Anastopoulos (Greece)

Lorenzo Annulli (Portugal)
Theocharis Apostolatos (Greece)

Stas Babak (France)

Leor Barack (UK)

Elvis Barakovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Enrico Barausse (France)
Robert Benkel (UK)
Laura Bernard (Portugal)

Sebastiano Bernuzzi (Germany)

Christopher Berry (UK)

Emanuele Berti (USA)

Miguel Bezares (Spain)

Diego Blas (Switzerland)

Jose Blazquez Salcedo (Germany)

Mateja Bošković (Serbia)

Richard Brito (Germany)

David Edward Bruschi (UK)

Vitor Cardoso (Portugal)

Sante Carloni (Portugal)

David Champion (Germany)
Christos Charmousis (France)

Piotr Chrusciel (Austria)

Andrew Coates (Germany)

Lucas Collodel (Germany)

William Cook (UK)

Miguel Correia (Portugal)
Pep Covas (Spain)

Marco Crisostomi (France)

Álvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz  (South Africa)

Pedro Cunha (Portugal)

Viktor Czinner (Portugal)

Orville Damaschke (Germany)

Kyriakos Destounis (Portugal)

Kostas Dialektopoulos (Italy)

Alexandru Dima (Italy)

Daniela Doneva (Germany)

James Edholm (UK)
Roberto Emparan (Spain)

Recai Erdem (Turkey)

Jose Maria Ezquiaga (Spain)

David Fajman (Austria)

Valeria Ferrari (Italy) 

Miguel Ferreira (Portugal)

Pedro Ferreira (UK)
Andrew Finch (Malta)
Jose Antonio Font (Spain)
Nicola Franchini (UK)

Kwinten Fransen (Belgium)

Viktor G. Gakis (Greece)

Dmitry Gal'tsov (Russia)

Cecilio Garcia (Spain)
Juan Garcia-Bellido (Spain)

Archisman Ghosh (Netherlands)

Thanasis Giannakopoulos (Portugal)
Kostas Glampedakis (Spain)

Chenxia Gu (UK)

Leonardo Gualtieri (Italy)

Eduardo Guendelman (Israel)

Troels Harmark (Denmark)

Lavinia Heisenberg (Switzerland)
Filip Hejda (Portugal)
Carlos Herdeiro (Portugal)
Thomas Hertog (Belgium)

Tanja Hinderer (Netherlands)

Philippe Jetzer (Switzerland)

Xisco Jimenez-Forteza (Italy)

Marc Kamionkowski (USA)

Masashi Kimura (Portugal)
Kostas Kokkotas (Germany)

Michael Kramer (Germany)

Jutta Kunz (Germany)

Claus Laemmerzahl (Germany)
Jackson Levi Said (Malta)
Stefano Liberati (Italy)

Jorge Lopes (Portugal)

Raimon Luna (Spain)

Yin-Zhe Ma (South Africa)

Elisa Maggio (UK)

Maciej Maliborski (Austria)

Marina Martínez Montero (Belgium)

Andrea Maselli (Germany)

Anupam Mazumdar (Netherlands) 

Masato Minamitsuji (Portugal)

Christopher Moore (Portugal)

David Mota (Norway)

Zahra Motahar (Germany)

Ilia Musco (Spain)

Sourabh Nampalliwar (Germany)

David A. Nichols (Netherlands)

Alex Nielsen (Germany)

Samaya Nissanke (Netherlands)
Emil Nissimov (Bulgaria)

Niels Obers (Denmark)

Roberto Oliveri (Belgium)
Paolo Pani (Italy)

Leftheris Papantonopoulos (Greece)

Georgios Pappas (Portugal)

Vedad Pasic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Aaron Poole (UK)

Geraint Pratten (Spain)

Fethi Ramazanoglu (Turkey)
Antoni Ramos (Spain)

Guilherme Raposo (Portugal)

Harvey Real (UK) 

Luciano Rezzolla (Germany)

Marek Rogatko (Poland)

Roxana Rosca (UK)

Mairi Sakellariadou (UK)

Ippocratis Saltas (Czech Republic)

Anuradha Samajdar (Netherlands)

Nicolás Sanchis-Gual (Spain) 

Mehdi Saravani (UK)

Patricia Schmidt (Netherlands)

Kostas Skenderis (UK)

Carlos Sopuerta (Spain)
Thomas Sotiriou (UK)

Ulrich Sperhake (UK)

Ciprian Sporea (Romania)

Danièle Steer (France)

Leo Stein (USA)

Marika Taylor (UK)

Alexandre Toubiana (France)

Anders Tranberg (Norway)

Orlenys Troconis (Spain)

Caner Unal (Czech Republic)

Kivanc Unluturk (Turkey)

Jose Velhinho (Portugal)
Yosef Verbin (Israel)
Bert Vercnocke (Belgium)
Daniele Vernieri (Portugal)

Rodrigo Vicente (Portugal)
Frederic Vincent (France)
Vincenzo Vitagliano (Portugal)

Norbert Wex (Germany)

Aneta Wojnar (Poland)

Kent Yagi (USA)

Haopeng Yan (Denmark)

Stoycho Yazadjiev (Bulgaria)

Miguel Zilhão (Portugal)