Assistant Professor Elisa Ferreira
Elisa Ferreira is Assistant Professor at the Kavli IPMU and at the Institute of Physics of the University of São Paulo. Her research deals with the interface between cosmology, astrophysics, and high energy physics. She focuses on the dark sector, studying the origins of dark energy and dark matter. She is developing new models and testing them by using astrophysical and cosmological observations. She is part of the Kavli IPMU CMB Group, pursuing research about the physics of the early universe using measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization to understand its beginning and evolution.
She completed her PhD at McGill University, Canada. Before joining Kavli IPMU and the University of São Paulo, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics. She organizes workshops and conferences on cosmology and events for gender equity in research and academia.
Selected links:
- An institute bridging divides - Asia Research News, March 10, 2023
- iTHEMS Theoretical Physics Seminar by Prof. Elisa G.M. Ferreira -
RIKEN Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences Program, October 11, 2022
- Workshop: Bridging natural sciences and gender studies - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 6 Oct 2022
- Ultra-Light Dark Matter: The Light and Fuzzy Side of Dark Matter - Cosmology from Home 2022, July 17 2022
- The light and fuzzy side of dark matter - Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, December 1, 2020
- Communicating the “Beauty and Complexity” of Science - SciTechDaily, July 26, 2020
- The 'Dark' Universe May Be Full of Strange Interactions - PBS, March 17, 2016
Selected publications
- Inspire
- Google Scholar
- ArXiv
- Ferreira, E. G M. et al. Restoring cosmological concordance with early dark energy and massive neutrinos? Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 520 Issue 3, Pages 3688–3695 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad317
- Ferreira, E. G M., Herold, L. Resolving the Hubble tension with Early Dark Energy. [arXiv:2210.16296 [astro-ph.CO]]
- Ferreira, E. G. M., et al. Cosmic filament spin from dark matter vortices. Physics Letters B, 833: 137298 (2022). DOI:10.1016/j.physletb.2022.137298
- Ferreira, E. G. M., et al. New constraint on Early Dark Energy from Planck and BOSS data using the profile likelihood. Astrophys.J.Lett. 929 1, L16. (2022). [arXiv:2112.12140 [astro-ph.CO]]
- Ferreira, E.G.M. Ultra-light dark matter. Astron Astrophys Rev 29, 7 (2021). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00159-021-00135-6
