Dr. David Fonseca Mota

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsElementary Particle Physics,Astrophysics
KeywordsTheoretical Physics, Cosmology, Dark Energy, Beyond the Standard Model of Part. Phys.

Current contact address

CountryNorway
CityOslo
InstitutionUniversity of Oslo
InstituteInstitute of Theoretical Astrophysics

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Christof WetterichInstitut für Theoretische Physik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg
Start of initial sponsorship01/08/2006

Programme(s)

2004Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2008Tomi Koivisto, David Fonseca Mota: Accelerating Cosmologies with an Anisotropic Equation of State.. In: Astrophys. J, 2008, 1
2008Douglas J. Shaw, David Fonseca Mota: An Improved Semi-Analytical Spherical Collapse Model for Non-linear Density Evolution.. In: Astrophys. J. Suppl. , 2008, 277
2008Andres Balaguera-Antolinez, David F. Mota, Marek Nowakowski: Astrophysical Configurations with Background Cosmology: Probing Dark Energy at Astrophysical Scales.. In: Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 2008, 621
2008Baojiu Li, David F. Mota, John D. Barrow: Detecting a Lorentz-Violating Field in Cosmology.. In: Phys. Rev. D, 2008, 024032
2008David F. Mota, Douglas J. Shaw, Joseph Silk: On the Magnitude of Dark Energy Voids and Overdensities.. In: Astrophys. J, 2008, 29
2008P. Brax, C. van de Bruck, A. C. Davis, D. F. Mota, D. J. Shaw: Testing Chameleon Theories with Light Propagating through a Magnetic Field.. In: Phys. Rev. D, 2008, 085010
2008Ole Eggers Bjaelde, Anthony W. Brookfield, Carsten van de Bruck, Steen Hannestad, David F. Mota, Lily Schrempp, Domenico Tocchini-Valentini: Neutrino Dark Energy -- Revisiting the Stability Issue. In: JCAP, 2008, 0801
2008Damien A. Easson, Ruth Gregory, David F. Mota, Gianmassimo Tasinato, Ivonne Zavala: Spinflation.. In: JCAP, 2008, 10
2007David Fonseca Mota D. J. Shaw: Evading Equivalence Principle Violations, Cosmological and other Experimental Constraints in Scalar Field Theories with a Strong Coupling to Matter. In: Phys. Rev. D, 2007, 063501
2007Baojiu Li, John D. Barrow , David Fonseca Mota: The Cosmology of Modified Gauss-Bonnet Gravity. In: Phys. Rev. D, 2007, 044027
2007F. Bourliot P.G. Ferreira, David Fonseca Mota, C. Skordis,: The cosmological behavior of Bekenstein's modified theory of gravity.. In: Phys. Rev. D, 2007, 063508
2007David Fonseca Mota, J. R. Kristiansen, T. Koivisto, N. E. Groeneboom: Constraining Dark Energy Anisotropic Stress.. In: Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 2007, 793
2007Philippe Brax, Carsten van de Bruck, Anne-Christine Davis, David F. Mota, Douglas Shaw: Detecting Chameleons through Casimir Force Measurements. In: Phys.Rev.D, 2007, 124034
2007Tomi Koivisto David Fonseca Mota: Gauss-Bonnet Quintessence: Background Evolution, Large Scale Structure and Cosmological Constraints. In: Phys. Rev. D, 2007, 023518
2007Baojiu Li, John D. Barrow, David F. Mota The Cosmology of Ricci-Tensor-Squared gravity in the Palatini variational approach.. 2007, 104047