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Fernando Quevedo Rodriguez
(born 12 May 1956 in
San Jose
,
Costa Rica
) is a
Guatemalan
physicist
[1]
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.
[2]
[3]
Education
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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
.
[1]
Career
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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.
[4]
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.
[5]
He has authored more than 100 papers.
[6]
Honors and awards
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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
Anamaria Font
, won the 1998
ICTP Prize
.
[7]
He has been a fellow of
the World Academy of Sciences
since 2010.
[8]
- 1998:
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
- 1998: ICTP 1998 Prize in High Energy Physics, Trieste, Italy
- 2000: Doctorate Honoris Causa, [Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala]]
- 2003: Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award,
Royal Society
, UK
- 2006: Doctorate Honoris Causa,
Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
- 2010: Distinguished Guatemalan award, Guatemala City Mayor
- 2010: Fellow,
The World Academy of Sciences
- 2013: Doctorate Honoris Causa, Universidad de Chiapas, Mexico
- 2017: Salvador Allende Award, Chile Embassy in Italy
- 2018:
Abdus Salam Medal
, The World Academy of Sciences
- 2019: Spirit of Abdus Salam Award
- 2020?2026: Distinguished Visiting Research Chair,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
, Canada
[9]
- 2021: John Wheatley Prize,
American Physical Society
[10]
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