Paulo Freire (astronomer)

Paulo Freire (born 1970) is a Portuguese astronomer.

He was born Oct 27, 1970 in Lisbon. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2001, at the University of Manchester in Manchester, England; his supervisor was Andrew Lyne. From 2001 to 2009 he worked at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, and since 2009 he has been working at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, in Bonn, Germany.

In 2011, he won a 1.9-million euro Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council.

In April 2013, he was part of the team addressing the expansion of the experimentally verified scope of Einstein's theory of relativity as a result of observations of the pulsar PSR J0348+0432.

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