Jonas Pedro Pereira

Bachelor of Physics from Federal University of Itajubá, UNIFEI, Brazil, in 2010. Master's at the same institution from 2010 to 2011 in theoretical physics (nonlinear optics). Ph.D. at the University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy, and Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France, in theoretical physics (relativistic astrophysics) from 2011 to 2014. Research fellow at Towson University, USA, from 2015 to 2016 in optics and analog models to general relativity. Research fellow at the Federal University of ABC, Brazil, from 2016 to 2018 in the field of neutron stars. Research fellow at the University of Southampton, UK, from 2018 to 2019 working on compact stars with phase transitions and elasticity. From 2019 to 2022, Research fellow at the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center in Warsaw, Poland, working with sources of gravitational waves. Member of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration from 2020 to 2022. From 2023 to 2024, Research fellow at UFES, Vitoria, Brazil, working with multimessenger astronomy. From 2024 to June 2025, research fellow at IAG-USP, working on probing compact objects using multimessenger astronomy. Since June 2025, Assistant Professor at the University of Brasília. Some fields of current interest: general relativity (thermodynamical, electrodynamical, and stability aspects of astrophysical systems), micro-physical aspects of compact stars, neutron star seismology (gravitational waves, quasi-normal modes, stability, QPOs), surface degrees of freedom in compact systems, mixed phases in neutron stars, elasticity (quark, mixed and hadronic phases), ellipticity, tidal deformations (static and dynamic) of neutron stars, cosmic rays, MHD (applied to magnetized compact stars), optics within general relativity (analog models and ray-tracing techniques), energy loss mechanisms in compact stars, nonlinear metamaterials (light properties and technological uses), nonlinear electrodynamics and applications to general relativity, neutrino physics, quantum field theory in curved spacetimes, alternative theories to general relativity (MOND). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)