Congratulations to the now Dr. Gustavo R. R. Soares, for a successful PhD thesis defense! 🎉🍾
The thesis is entitled “Accretion discs, jets, and black hole spins: a study of blazars” and was done under my supervision. The whole defense was entirely online, following the social distancing recommendations of the World Health Organization and the São Paulo State government, in order to ensure the safety of all involved with respect to COVID-19.
The defense lasted for almost five hours (!!), with the thesis committee members in two countries—Brasil and US—and in three states in Brasil: Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
Thanks to Dr. Soares’s work, we now we know a bit more about the role of black holes in the universe, and how the supermassive ones power relativistic jets.
Gustavo will begin a postdoc at Oregon State University in the Fall. We are all wishing Gustavo a huge success for his future career!
Our thanks to the Brazilian science funding agencies CAPES, CNPq and FAPESP. Without them, this work would not have been possible.
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