Researcher

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SPIRE

Citizenship: Colombian citizen
Languages: Spanish (native), English (fluent)

Research interests

Relativistic astrophysics, compact objects, numerical relativity, gravitational-waves sources.

Research experience

• Visiting Researcher 01/10/2018 – 31/12/2018
  Research Centre of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics
  Institute of Physics
  Faculty of Philosophy and Science
  Silesian University in Opava
  Bezručovo nám. 13
  CZ-74601 Opava, Czech Republic
• Visiting Researcher 02/2018 – 08/2018
  Group of Relativistic Astrophysics
  Centro de Matemática, Computa ̧cao e Cogni ̧cao
  Universidade Federal do ABC
  Av. dos Estados, 5001
  Santo André - SP, Brazil.
  Supervisor: Cecilia Chirenti

Education

• University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC., USA Ph.D., Physics, 08/2017
  Thesis: On slowly rotating supercompact Schwarzschild stars
   Advisor: Pawel O. Mazur
• University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC., USA
  M.Sc., Physics, 08/2014
  Thesis: On the electrovacuum solutions to the Einstein-Maxwell system in General
  Relativity
• Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá D.C., Colombia
  M.Sc., Physics, 09/2009
  Thesis: The effect of the cosmological expansion on gravitational bounded systems
  (in Spanish)
  Advisor: Marek Nowakowski
• Universidad Pedag ́ogica Nacional, Bogotá D.C., Colombia
  B.S., Physics, 08/2005

Teaching

• Teaching Assistant 08/2011 – 08/2017
  PHYS 202/212 - General Physics II Lab
  Department of Physics and Astronomy
  University of South Carolina
  Columbia, SC., USA.
  Coordinator: James Clawson
• Full Time Lecturer Jan. 2011 – Jun. 2011
  Physics II (Electricity and Magnetism) - Theory and Lab.
  Area of Physics
  Universidad Piloto de Colombia
  Bogot ́a D.C., Colombia
• Full Time Lecturer Jan. 2011 – Jun. 2011
  Physics II (Electricity and Magnetism) - Theory and Lab.
  Area of Physics
  Universidad Piloto de Colombia
  Bogot ́a D.C., Colombia
• Full Time Lecturer Jan. 2010 – Dec. 2010
  Physics I and II - Theory and Lab.
  Mathematical Methods for Engineers
  Area of Basic Sciences
  Fundación Universitaria Los Libertadores
  Bogotá D.C., Colombia
• Graduate Assistant Jan. 2006 – Jul. 2009
  Experimental Physics I and II
  Physics I and II (Recitation Sessions)
  Physics I (2007, 2008 Summer Lecturer)
  Department of Physics
  Universidad de los Andes
  Bogotá D.C., Colombia

Awards

• Honor Fellowship for Outstanding Academic Performance
  Universidad Pedag ́ogica Nacional
  Bogot ́a D.C., Colombia
  Date: 06/2002
• Visiting International Fellowship in the Physical Sciences
  Faculty of Philosophy and Sciences
  Silesian University in Opava
  Opava, Czech Republic
  Date: 01/09/2018 – 31/12/2018

List of selected articles

• Camilo Posada, Jan Hladík, Zdenek Stuchlík, "Dynamical instability of polytropic spheres 
  in spacetimes with a cosmological constant", Phys. Rev. D 102, 024056 (2020)

• J. Ovalle, C. Posada, Z. Stuchlík, "Anisotropic ultracompact Schwarzschild star
  by gravitational decoupling", Class. Quant. Grav. 36, 205010 (2019)

• Roman A. Konoplya, C. Posada, Z. Stuchlík, A. Zhidenko, "Stable Schwarzschild stars
  as black-hole mimickers", Phys. Rev. D 100, 044027 (2019)

• Camilo Posada, Cecilia Chirenti, "On the radial stability of ultra compact Schwarzschild stars
  beyond the Buchdahl limit", Class. Quant. Grav. 36, 065004 (2019)

• Camilo Posada, "Slowly rotating supercompact Schwarzschild stars",
  Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 468, 2128 (2017)