Tiago Castro

Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste / Villa Bazzoni
Adress: Via Bazzoni, 2, 34143 Trieste TS - Phone: +39 040 3199 141 - Mobile: +39 388 794 1562.
tiagobscastro@gmail.com
Curriculum Vitae

Currently, works as Post-Doc at the astronomy unit of the department of physics of UNITS / OATS.

Graduated in Physics (2012), Master in Physics (2014), and Ph.D. in Physics (2018) at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

Has experience in cosmology, focusing on observational cosmology, acting on the following subjects: supernovae, gravitational lensing, peculiar velocities, cosmological simulations, large-scale structure and Bayesian tools in cosmology.

Social

Research

My scientific production and my peer-review contributions statistics.

Academic Articles

T. Castro, S. Borgani, K. Dolag, V. Marra, M. Quartin, A. Saro, E. Sefusatti, On the impact of baryons on the halo mass function, bias, and cluster cosmology, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
C. Giocoli, P. Monaco, L. Moscardini, T. Castro, M. Meneghetti, R. B. Metcalf, M. Baldi, Testing the Reliability of Fast Methods for Weak Lensing Simulations: WL-MOKA on PINOCCHIO, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 496, Issue 2, August 2020, Pages 1307–1324.
S. Bonoli et al. (J-PAS collaboration), The miniJPAS survey: a preview of the Universe in 56 colours, Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A)
T. Castro, M. Quartin, C. Giocoli, S. Borgani, K. Dolag, The effect of baryons in the cosmological lensing PDFs, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 478, Issue 1, July 2018, Pages 1305–1325.
A compilation of the simulated lensing statistics presented in this paper.
T. Castro, M. Quartin, S. Benitez-Herrera, Turning noise into signal: Learning from the scatter in the Hubble diagram, Physics of the Dark Universe, Volume 13, September 2016, Pages 66–76.
T. Castro, V. Marra, M. Quartin, Constraining the halo mass function with observations, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 463, Issue 2, Pages 1666-1677.
L. Amendola, T. Castro, V. Marra, M. Quartin, Constraining the growth of perturbations with lensing of supernovae, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 449, Issue 3, Pages 2845-2852.
T. Castro, M. Quartin, First measurement of σ 8 using supernovae magnitudes only, Monthly Notices Letters of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 443, Issue 1, L6–L10.

Education

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Ph.D. in Physics

Area: Cosmology, Advisor: Miguel Quartin. On the Robustness of ΛCDM: data mining tests and cross-checks.

2014 - 2018

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Masters in Physics

Area: Cosmology, Advisor: Miguel Quartin. On lensing effect in supernovae data.

2012 – 2014

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Scientific Initiation

Advisor: Miguel Quartin. On Monte Carlo Markov Chain..

2011 – 2012

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Bachelor of Physics

2008 – 2012

Experience

Teaching

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Temporary Professor of Physics teaching undergraduate basic physics courses.

2015 - 2016

Research

J-PAS member

Working on Cluster of Galaxies and Galaxy Clustering.

2016

Euclid Member

Working on Cosmological Simulations, Cluster of Galaxies, and Galaxy Clustering.

2018

INAF - Astronomical Observatory of Trieste (Italy)

Ph.D. visiting student in Professor Borgani's group

During my Ph.D. I was awarded the Science Without Borders fellowship and during one year I have visited professor Borgani's group. Starting my research on the effect of baryons on the large-scale structure.

2016

Teaching Assistant

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Extra-class support to students in Computational Methods of Theoretical Physics on C. In this course the Professor introduces the students to C language and several numerical methods useful for Physics. The teaching assistant helps the students with the solution of the challenges proposed in Class.

2011 – 2012 / 2014

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools

C/C++
Mathematica
Python

Bayesian Statistics Techniques

MCMC
EMCEE
Nested Sampling

Awards & Grants

2017 - Doutorado Nota 10, Ph.D. excellence fellowship, FAPERJ.
2016 - Science without borders Ph.D. sandwich fellowship, CNPQ.

Interests

Apart from being a cosmologist, I like to use my spare time challenging myself in other fields. I like to practice martial arts and have practiced during my life Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Judo, Krav-maga, Submission, and Taekwondo. Currently, I practice only BJJ (blue belt) and Judo (yellow belt).

I am also an avid lover of music and like to challenge my musical ear trying to perceive every single detail of my favorite songs. Notwithstanding my efforts and studies of the electric guitar, I still am a very limited guitarist.