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Fernando Quevedo

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{{Short description|Guatemalan physicist (born 1956)}}

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| alma_mater = University of Texas at Austin, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala

| thesis_title = Topics in supergravity and superstring phenomenology

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| doctoral_advisor = Steven Weinberg

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| awards = ICTP Prize (1998)
Abdus Salam Medal (2017)
John Wheatley Prize (2021)

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Fernando Quevedo Rodríguez (born 12 May 1956 in San José, Costa Rica) is a Guatemalan physicist{{cite web | url = https://twas.org/sites/default/files/cv_fquevedo_april_2022.pdf | title = Curriculum Vitae - Fernando Quevedo | publisher = The World Academy of Sciences | accessdate = 8 October 2022}} and obtained his early education in Guatemala. He was the director of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) between October 2009 and November 2019.{{cite web |url=https://portal.ictp.it/pio/words/news/2009/new-leadership-for-ictp |title=New Leadership for ICTP

|author= |date=2009-10-01 |website= |publisher=ICTP |access-date=2017-09-28}}{{cite web | title = About the Director | url = https://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/directorate/about-the-director.aspx | accessdate = 7 October 2022 | publisher = ICTP}} With Anamaría Font, Luis E. Ibáñez, and Dieter Lüst, he proposed a weak-strong duality conjecture which introduced the concept of S-duality in 1990.{{Cite book |last=Polchinski |first=Joseph |url=https://www.google.fr/books/edition/Memories_of_a_Theoretical_Physicist/m2Q0EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=polchinski+font+ibanez+s+duality&pg=PA143&printsec=frontcover |title=Memories of a Theoretical Physicist: A Journey across the Landscape of Strings, Black Holes, and the Multiverse |date=2022-05-24 |publisher=MIT Press |isbn=978-0-262-36890-2 |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last=Font |first=A. |last2=Ibáñez |first2=L.E. |last3=Lüst |first3=D. |last4=Quevedo |first4=F. |date=October 1990 |title=Strong-weak coupling duality and non-perturbative effects in string theory |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/0370269390905239 |journal=Physics Letters B |language=en |volume=249 |issue=1 |pages=35–43 |doi=10.1016/0370-2693(90)90523-9}}

Education

He obtained his BSc in physics from the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala in 1979, and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1986 under the supervision of Nobel laurate Steven Weinberg.

Career

Following a string of research appointments at CERN, Switzerland, McGill University in Canada, Institut de Physique in Neuchatel, Switzerland, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA, as well as a brief term as professor of physics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Dr. Quevedo later joined the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge, UK, in 1998, where he has been Professor of Theoretical Physics and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College.{{Cite web|url=http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/people/f.quevedo/|title = Professor Fernando Quevedo | Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics}} He has taught courses on the Standard Model, differential equations, complex methods, supersymmetry and extra dimensions. He has discussed the importance of international research institutions for science diplomacy.{{cite journal|last=Quevedo|first=Fernando|title=The Importance of International Research Institutions for Science Diplomacy|journal=Science & Diplomacy|date=July 2013|volume=2|issue=3|url=http://www.sciencediplomacy.org/perspective/2013/importance-international-research-institutions-for-science-diplomacy}} He has authored more than 100 papers.{{Cite web |url=https://inspirehep.net/author/profile/F.Quevedo.1 |title=Scientific publications of Fernando Quevedo on INSPIRE-HEP |access-date=2015-08-10 |archive-date=2019-07-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190719162730/http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/F.Quevedo.1 |url-status=dead }}

Honors and awards

He has been awarded the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, Doctorate Honoris Causa from Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala and Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, John Solomon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and, alongside Anamaría Font, won the 1998 ICTP Prize.{{Cite web|title=ICTP - The Prize Winners|url=https://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/prizes-awards/the-ictp-prize/the-prize-winners.aspx|access-date=2021-03-27|website=www.ictp.it}} He has been a fellow of the World Academy of Sciences since 2010.{{cite web | url = https://twas.org/directory/quevedo-fernando | title = TWAS Directory - QUEVEDO, Fernando | accessdate = 8 October 2022}}

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Category:Guatemalan physicists

Category:People associated with CERN

Category:Living people

Category:Cambridge mathematicians

Category:Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

Category:1956 births

Category:Academic staff of the National Autonomous University of Mexico