My curriculum vitae

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Personal information

Name: Carlos A. Benavides-Gallego.
Nationality: Colombian.
Date of birth: September 12, 1985.
Place of birth: Manizales, Caldas, Colombia.

Education

2017-2020. Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics. Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Ph.D. advisor: Prof. Cosimo Bambi.

Dissertation: “Gravitational lensing, particle motion and quientessence.”
2011-2013. M.Sc. in Astronomy. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá.

M.Sc. advisor: Prof. Eduard Larrañaga.

Thesis: “Gravitational lensing in the strong field limit for Kar’s metric.”
2005-2011. B.Sc. in Physics. Universidad Nacional de Colombia,Bogotá, Colombia.

B.Sc. advisor: Prof. José Robel Arenas.

Thesis: “Singularidades Cosmológicas”.

Experience

Research

2022-2024. Postdoctoral researcher. School of Physics and Astronomuy. Shanghai Jiao Tong Universsity (SJTU).
2020-2022. Postdoctoral researcher. Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO).
2017-2020. Ph.D. student. Fudan University, Shangahi, China.
2011-2013. M.Sc. student. Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UN). Bogotá, Colombia.

Vocational

2014-2017. Lecturer. Universidad Católica de Colombia. Bogotá, Colombia. I was in charge of the following undergraduate courses:
- Newtonian mechanics and laboratory.
- Oscillations and waves, and laboratory.
- Electromagnetisim and laboratory.
2014-2016. Lecturer. Escuela de Ingenieros Militares (ESING). I was in charge of the following undergraduate courses (virtual):
- Integral Calculus.
- Vector Calculus.
- Differential equations.
2011-2013. Teaching asistant. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. As a scholarship holder, I was in charge of the laboratory of electricity and magnetism.

Science disemination

2013-2015. Departamento de matemática e ingeniería. Universidad Konrad Lorenz. Bogotá, Colombia.

It was a science dissemination project hosted by the Universidad Konrad Lorenz through AstroK. In this project, my friend Alejandro Cardenas Avendaño and I guided and mentored high school students to carry out the following projects:
- Construction of a 6-inch f/8 Newtonian Telescope. The results of this project was published in Asociacion Colombiana para el avance de la ciencia XXIII No.2 (2016), page 82. See the following link for the published paper.
- Construction of a radio telescope. We used the radio Jove initiative.

Fellowships/Scholarships/Awards

2020-2022. President’s International Fellowship Intiative (PIFI).
2017-2020. China Scholarship Council (CSC). Grant No. 2017GXZ019022.
2012-2013. M.Sc. Scholarship. Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
2011-2012. Tuituion Waiver. Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
2011 Scholarship holder, School of Science. B.Sc. Physics. Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

Student mentoring

As a postdoc researcher, I have mentored the following students, guiding them in the research and writing process of academic papers and their submission to scientific journals

Farrux Abdulxaminol. National University of Uzbekistan.
- Spinning test particle motion around a rotating wormhole.
- Dynamics of spinning test particles around the Kerr–Newman–NUT black hole with quintessence in the Rastall gravity.
José Miguel Ladino. Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
- Charged spinning and magnetized test particles orbiting quantum improved charged black holes.
- I also participated as referee in his M.Sc.thesis dissertation: Modos Cuasinormales de un agujero negro AdS con carga eléctrica en la gravedad de Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet 4D.
Qianyun Yun. Shanghai Astronomical Observatory.
- Surrogate model for gravitational waveforms of spin-aligned binary black holes with eccentricities.

Talks/Seminars/Conferences/Proceedings

2025 Talk: “General Relativity: consequences and applications.” Universidad Nacional de Colombia sede Manizales.
2020 Coloquio de Astronomía: Lentes Gravitacionales, quinta esencia y movimiento de partículas. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá.
Seminar at the Institute for Theoretical physics and Cosmology Zheijian University of Technology Hangzhou, China. Talk: “Charged particle motio and electromagnetic field in gamma spacetime.”
2019 Conference: Recent Progress in Relativistic Astrophysics, Shanghai, China, 6-8 May. Fudna University, Center for field Theory and Particle physics and Deparment of Physics. Talk: Boosted Kerr black hole in the precense of plasma.
2019 Poster at Asian-Pacific winter School and Workshop on Gravitation and Cosmology. February 11-15. Yukawa Institute for Theoretical physics, Kyoto University, Japan. Poster: Gravitational lensing for a boosted Kerr black hole in the presence of plasma.
2014 Talk: El Universo como una Lente: de los Corpúsculos de Newton a la Teoría General de la Relatividad. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá.
2012 Poster at the 3th Colombian Congress of Astronomy and Astrophysics (CoCoA). Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS), Bucaramanga, Santader. Poster: Gravitational lensing in the strong field limit: Bozza’s method.
2012 Summer School. Solar Astrophysics. Modern Trends and Techniques. Observatorio Astronómico Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
2011 Poster at the 1th School of numerical Relativity. Oobservatorio Astronómico Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. Poster: Space-time: properties and singularity theorems.

Books translations

Together with my friend Alejandro Cardenas Avendaño we translated to Spanish Prof. Bambi’s textbook: Introduction to General Relativity. The English version of the book was published by Springer Nature Singapore in 2018. The book was then translated to Chinese and published by Fudan University Press in 2020. With this version in Spanish, published by the prestigious Editorial Reverté, we are thus at the third edition of the book! The e-book can be found on Amazon.