Career
- 2003-present Professor of Theoretical Physics
- 2009-2019 Director ICTP, Trieste (www.ictp.it). On leave from DAMTP
- 2001-2003 Reader in Theoretical Physics, DAMTP
- 2000-2001 University Lecturer, DAMTP
- 1998-2000 PPARC Advanced Research Fellow, DAMTP
- 1997-1998 Professor of Physics, UNAM, Mexico
- 1995-1996 Paid Associate CERN, Switzerland
- 1991-1995 Chef des Travaux, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
- 1989-1991 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
- 1988-1989 Postoctoral Research Fellow, McGill University, Canada
- 1986-1988 Research Fellow, CERN, Switzerland
Research
Fernando Quevedo is a member of the High Energy Physics group at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, DAMTP. His work is mostly on String Theory and its potential phenomenological and cosmological implications.
Selected Publications
- J.P.Conlon, S.S.Abdussalam, F.Quevedo and K.Suruliz, ``Soft SUSY breaking terms for chiral matter in IIB string compactifications,'' JHEP 0701 (2007) 032 [arXiv:hep-th/0610129].
- V. Balasubramanian, P. Berglund, J. P. Conlon, F. Quevedo ``Systematics of moduli stabilisation in Calabi-Yau flux compactifications''. JHEP 0503 (2005) 007, [arXiv: hep-th/0502058].
- C.P.Burgess, R.Kallosh and F.Quevedo, ``de Sitter string vacua from supersymmetric D-terms,'' JHEP 0310 (2003) 056 [arXiv:hep-th/0309187].
- C.P.Burgess, M.Majumdar, D.Nolte, F.Quevedo, G.Rajesh and R.J.Zhang, ``The inflationary brane-antibrane universe,'' JHEP 0107 (2001) 047 [arXiv:hep-th/0105204].
- G.Aldazabal, L.E.Ibanez, F.Quevedo and A.M.Uranga, ``D-branes at singularities: A bottom-up approach to the string embedding of %the standard model,'' JHEP 0008 (2000) 002 [arXiv:hep-th/0005067].
- REVIEW ARTICLE F.Quevedo, ``Lectures on string/brane cosmology,'' Class. Quant. Grav. 19 (2002) 5721 [arXiv:hep-th/0210292].
- POPULAR SCIENCE C.Burgess and F.Quevedo, ``The great cosmic roller-coaster ride,'' Scientific American November (2007)
Selected External Activities
- Director ICTP (UNESCO/IAEA/Italy institution for research and promotion of science in developing countries: www.ictp.it).
- 2005-2008 STFC/PPARC Particle Physics Grants Panel (Theory)
- 2005,2007,2008 International Coordinator of Network of Guatemalan Scientists.
Publications
New constraints (and motivations) for abelian gauge bosons in the MeV-TeV mass range
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2011)
2011,
106
(doi: 10.1007/jhep08(2011)106)
New constraints (and motivations) for abelian gauge bosons in the MeV-TeV mass range
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2011)
2011,
ARTN 106
(doi: 10.1007/jhep08(2011)106)
Cold dark matter hypotheses in the MSSM
– Physics Letters B
(2011)
700,
343
Radiative fermion masses in local D-brane models
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2011)
2011,
103
(doi: 10.1007/JHEP05(2011)103)
Über-naturalness: unexpectedly light scalars from supersymmetric extra dimensions
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2011)
2011,
10
(doi: 10.1007/jhep05(2011)010)
Non-standard primordial fluctuations and nongaussianity in string inflation
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2010)
2010,
45
(doi: 10.1007/jhep08(2010)045)
D-branes at toric singularities: model building, Yukawa couplings and flavour physics
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2010)
2010,
92
(doi: 10.1007/jhep06(2010)092)
D-branes at Toric Singularities: Model Building, Yukawa Couplings and
Flavour Physics
– JHEP
(2010)
1006,
092
(doi: 10.1007/JHEP06(2010)092)
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