Fernando Quevedo

Fernando Quevedo ( born 1956 in Costa Rica ) is a Guatemalan theoretical physicist who deals with elementary particle physics and cosmology.

Quevedo went to Guatemala to school and in 1986 received his doctorate in Steven Weinberg at the University of Texas at Austin in theoretical physics. As a post - graduate student, he was until 1988 at CERN, at McGill University, and from 1989 to 1991 at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Quevedo was from 1991 to 1995 at the University of Neuchâtel and a short time in 1997/98 Professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico before he University Lecturer, Reader 2001 and 2003 Professor at the University of Cambridge in 1998 Research Fellow, 2000, and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. In 2009 he was also director of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics ( ICTP ) in Trieste.

He mainly deals with string theory phenomenology (and their generalizations in branes ) and physics beyond the standard model as well as with applications in cosmology ( Branenkosmologie ).

He was Guggenheim Fellow and received the 1998 ICTP Prize in high energy physics. He has two honorary doctorates in Guatemala ( Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala).

Writings

  • With CP Burgess: The great cosmic roller- coaster ride. In: Scientific American. November 2007
  • With Joseph P. Conlon, S. Shehu Abdussalam, Kerim Suruliz: ` soft SUSY breaking terms for chiral matter in IIB string compactifications. In: JHEP. 2007, Arxiv
  • With V. Balasubramanian, P. Berglund, JP Conlon: Systematics of moduli stabilization in Calabi - Yau flux compactifications. In: JHEP. 2005, Arxiv
  • CP Burgess, JM Cline, H. Stoica: Inflation in Realistic D- brane models. In: JHEP. 2004, Arxiv
  • With CP Burgess, Renata Kallosh: De Sitter string vacua from supersymmetric D -terms. In: JHEP. 2003, Arxiv
  • With CP Burgess, M. Majumdar, D. Nolte, G. Rajesh, RJ Zhang: The inflationary brane - antibrane universe. In: JHEP. 2001, Arxiv
  • With G. Aldazabal, LE Ibanez, Angel M. Uranga: D- branes at singularities: A bottom-up approach to the string embedding of the standard model. In: JHEP. 2000, Arxiv
  • Lectures on string / brane cosmology. In: Class. Quant. Grav Volume 19, 2002, pp. 5721, Arxiv
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