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Alexander Gallego Cadavid

Postdoctoral fellow

Universidad de Valparaíso

Valparaíso, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


I am interested in early universe physics, cosmic inflation, cosmological perturbations, primordial non-Gaussianity, primordial black holes, gravitational waves and modified gravity theories

Educación

  •  Cosmology, UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA. Colombia, 2018
  •  Cosmology, UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA. Colombia, 2014
  •  Cosmology, UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA. Colombia, 2008

Experiencia Académica

  •   Adjunct teacher Other

    UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA

    Faculty of Exact Science

    Medellín, Colombia

    2008 - 2014

  •   Adjunct teacher Other

    UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA

    Faculty of Exact Science

    Medellín, Colombia

    2017 - 2018

  •   Adjunct teacher Other

    Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano

    Faculty of Exact Science

    Medellín, Colombia

    2012 - 2014

  •   Adjunct teacher Other

    UNIVERSIDAD DE VALPARAISO

    Faculty of Exact Science

    Valparaíso, Chile

    2023 - 2023

  •   Adjunct teacher Other

    UNIVERSIDAD DE VALPARAISO

    Faculty of Exact Science

    Valparaíso, Chile

    2021 - 2021

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Postdoctoral fellow Full Time

    Universidad Industrial de Santander

    Bucaramanga, Colombia

    2018 - 2019

  •   Postdoctoral fellow Full Time

    Universidad de Valparaíso

    Valparaíso, Chile

    2019 - 2021

  •   Fondecyt Postdoctoral fellow Full Time

    Universidad de Valparaíso and Fondecyt

    Valparaíso, Chile

    2021 - A la fecha

Formación de Capital Humano


Referee. Evaluation panel No. 71, Fundamental Research Call 937-2023, Minciencias: “Comparative
analysis of metric-affine, metric, and Palatini formulations of gravity theory” Oct 2023

Referee. Master Thesis Project: “Determinación de la constante de expansión de Hubble H0 a partir
de la detección de ondas gravitacionales” Nov 2022
Student: Pablo Miguel Cifuentes Espitia, Universidad de Antioquia

Referee. Physics of the Dark Universe Journal Since Aug 2022

Referee. Book Chapter: “De Sitter Cosmology perturbed by quantum effects and Gauss-Bonnet dark
energy”, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira Dec 2020

Referee. Master Thesis: “Estudio post-newtoniano de las ondas gravitacionales en una Teor??a de
Gravedad Modificada de cuarto orden” Nov 2020
Student: Sebastián Rueda Blanco, Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Co-Advisor. Undergraduate Thesis: “Escenario viable de energ??a oscura en el marco de la teor??a más
allá de Horndeski” Aug–Nov 2019
Student: Rafael Chona Perea, Universidad Industrial de Santander

Referee. Undergraduate Thesis Project: “Objetos compactos en la teor??a de Proca General-
izada” Apr 2019
Student: William Andrés Jaimes Esp??ndola, Universidad Industrial de Santander

Co-Advisor. Undergraduate Thesis Project: “Escenario viable de energ??a oscura en el marco de la
teor??a más allá de Horndeski” Apr 2019
Student: Rafael Chona Perea, Universidad Industrial de Santander

Referee. Undergraduate Thesis: “Aspectos geométricos y dinámicos del movimiento de part??culas
cargadas en variedades Riemannianas” Jul 2019
Student: Andrés Fernando Restrepo Galeano, Institución Universitaria ITM


Difusión y Transferencia


OUTREACH ACTIVITIES
Scientific Events
* Scientific Committee, 3rd Julio Garavito Meeting 2024, Universidad Industrial de Santander
* Scientific Committee, Latin American Conference on Astrophysics and Relativity 2024, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
* Organizer, Mini-Workshop on Gravitational Waves Pipelines, Mar 8 2024, Universidad de Valpara??so

Community Events
* Instructor, Astronomy Day–Institute of Physics and Astronomy, Universidad de Valpara??so
- Workshop: Paint your planet, Mar 2022
- Workshop: Hydropropulsion Rockets, Mar 2023


Premios y Distinciones

  •   Becas Doctorado Colciencias

    'FONDO COLOMBIANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS Y PROYECTOS ESPECIALES ''FRANCISCO JOSE DE CALDAS COLCIENCIAS'''

    Colombia, 2014

    Las Becas COLCIENCIAS brindan la oportunidad a profesionales colombianos con excelencia académica de realizar sus estudios de doctorado en Colombia.


 

Article (13)

Decoupling-limit consistency of the generalized SU(2) Proca theory
Reconstructing homospectral inflationary potentials
Towards the extended SU(2) Proca theory
Generalized SU(2) Proca theory reconstructed and beyond
No slow-roll inflation à la generalized Chaplygin gas in general relativity
A systematic procedure to build the beyond generalized Proca field theory
One spectrum to rule them all?
Degeneracy in the spectrum and bispectrum among featured inflaton potentials
CMB anomalies and the effects of local features of the inflaton potential
Features in single field slow-roll inflation
Effects of local features of the inflaton potential on the spectrum and bispectrum of primordial perturbations
Effects of discontinuities of the derivatives of the inflaton potential
Effects of features in the inflaton potential on the spectrum and bispectrum of primordial curvature perturbations

Proyecto (3)

Inference of cosmological parameters from Gravitational Wave observations
Challenging the Standard Model of Cosmology with features of the inflaton potential
Cosmology after Bicep
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Alexander Gallego

Postdoctoral fellow

Facultad de Ciencias

Universidad de Valparaíso

Valparaíso, Chile

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Luis Gómez

Postdoc

Física

Universidad de Santiago de Chile

Santiago, Chile