Francisco Lobo is the current coordinator of the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (IA). He is a researcher at the IA and Professor with Habilitation at the Department of Physics of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL). He was the previous Leader of the IA-Cosmology Group (Unveiling the Dynamics of the Universe), and has been a member of the IA since its inception. He completed his PhD from the University of Lisbon in 2005. He is a member of the Euclid and LISA missions. He has published over 190 articles in high-impact international scientific journals, and over 50 refereed conference proceedings; has over 25 book chapter(s) and 2 books [his h-index is the following: h=72 (INSPIRES); h=69 (NASA/ADS); h=77 (Google Scholar)]. He has supervised a significant number of MSc/PhD/post-docs, and has been very successful in acquiring external funding. In the consecutive years of 2021 and 2022, he won the "Ciências Research Award", a prize that FCUL distinguishes its most productive researcher in the previous year. In the consecutive years of the period 2018-2023, he was placed in the top 2% of the publicly available database, published by the PLoS Biology journal, of the world's 100 000 top-scientists. He was the recipient of the 2021 "Prémio Científico Universidade de Lisboa/Caixa Geral de Depósitos" in the area of Physics and Materials.

Teorias modificadas de gravidade; modelos de energia e matéria escura; buracos negros; cosmologia e modelos inflacionários; soluções exatas das equações de Einstein; wormholes Lorentzianos e a estrutura causal do espaço-tempo; modelos análogos; desigualdades quânticas e teoria quântica de campo.

Modified theories of gravity; Dark energy models; Brane Cosmology; Exact Solutions to the Einstein Field Equations; Lorentzian Wormholes and the Causal Structure of Spacetime; Energy Conditions and Closed Timelike Curves; Black Holes and Cosmology; Analogue models; Quantum Inequalities and Quantum Field Theory