Níck

theoretical physicist

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Hello, there! I am Níckolas de Aguiar Alves, or Níck for short. My pronouns are he/him. I am a PhD candidate at the Federal University of ABC, Brazil. I work on many aspects of gravitation, with a particular taste for its interface with quantum mechanics.

Recent works:

• Níckolas de Aguiar Alves. “Lectures on the Bondi–Metzner–Sachs group and related topics in infrared physics”. Eur. Phys. J. C 86.5, 507 (2026). arXiv: 2504.12521 [gr-qc]. [INSPIRE].
• Níckolas de Aguiar Alves. “Physics as a branch of poetry”. Am. J. Phys. (2026). [Accepted manuscript]. In press.
• Caio César Rodrigues Evangelista and Níckolas de Aguiar Alves. “Using thermodynamics to learn gravitational wave physics”. Eur. J. Phys. 47.2, 025604 (2026). arXiv: 2602.21261 [gr-qc]. [INSPIRE].