Gabriel Pacheco Ribeiro has been approved in his qualifying exam entitled "Hairy black holes via gravitational decoupling: absorption and quasibound states". The exam took place remotely, on 15th January 2026, using Google Meet platform. The qualifying monograph was supervised by the Grav@zon member Prof. Dr. Luís Carlos Bassalo Crispino. The board of examination was composed by Prof. Dr. Samuel R. Dolan (University of Sheffield, England) and Prof. Dr. Carlos A. R. Herdeiro (University of Aveiro, Portugal). Congratulations, Gabriel! (January/2026)