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
Inflating with large effective fields
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2014)
2014,
045
Sequestered de Sitter string scenarios: soft-terms
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2014)
2014,
71
(doi: 10.1007/JHEP11(2014)071)
A comment on continuous spin representations of the Poincare group and perturbative string theory
– Fortschritte der Physik
(2014)
62,
975
(doi: 10.1002/prop.201400067)
Explicit de Sitter flux vacua for global string models with chiral matter
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2014)
2014,
1
(doi: 10.1007/JHEP05(2014)001)
A note on the magnitude of the flux superpotential
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2014)
2014,
27
(doi: 10.1007/jhep01(2014)027)
Stability, tunneling and flux changing de Sitter transitions in the large volume string scenario
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2013)
2013,
179
(doi: 10.1007/jhep11(2013)179)
String inflation after Planck 2013
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2013)
2013,
003
D3/D7 branes at singularities: constraints from global embedding and moduli stabilisation
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2013)
2013,
150
(doi: 10.1007/JHEP07(2013)150)
The web of D-branes at singularities in compact Calabi-Yau manifolds
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2013)
2013,
114
(doi: 10.1007/jhep05(2013)114)
Dark radiation in LARGE volume models
– Physical Review D
(2013)
87,
043520
(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.87.043520)
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