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Professor Fernando Quevedo

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

Low-energy supersymmetry breaking from string flux compactifications: Benchmark scenarios
BC Allanach, F Quevedo, K Suruliz
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2006)
2006,
040
(doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/04/040)
Supersymmetry parameter analysis: SPA convention and project
JA Aguilar-Saavedra, A Ali, BC Allanach, R Arnowitt, HA Baer, JA Bagger, C Balazs, V Barger, M Barnett, A Bartl, M Battaglia, P Bechtle, G Belanger, A Belyaev, EL Berger, G Blair, E Boos, M Carena, SY Choi, F Deppisch et al.
– The European Physical Journal C
(2006)
46,
43
(doi: 10.1140/epjc/s2005-02460-1)
Kähler moduli inflation
JP Conlon, F Quevedo
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2006)
2006,
146
(doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/01/146)
Physics interplay of the LHC and the ILC
G Weiglein, T Barklow, E Boos, A De Roeck, K Desch, F Gianotti, R Godbole, JF Gunion, HE Haber, S Heinemeyer, JL Hewett, K Kawagoe, K Monig, MM Nojiri, G Polesello, F Richard, S Riemann, WJ Stirling, AG Akeroyd, BC Allanach et al.
– Physics Reports
(2006)
426,
47
(doi: 10.1016/j.physrep.2005.12.003)
Warped tachyonic inflation in type-IIB flux compactifications and the open-string completeness conjecture
D Cremades, F Quevedo, A Sinha
– J HIGH ENERGY PHYS
(2005)
ARTN 106
(link to publication)
Casimir energies for 6D supergravities compactified on T-2/Z(N) with Wilson lines
DM Ghilencea, D Hoover, CP Burgess, F Quevedo
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2005)
2005,
050
(doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/09/050)
Large-volume flux compactifications: moduli spectrum and D3/D7 soft supersymmetry breaking
JP Conlon, F Quevedo, K Suruliz
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2005)
2005,
007
(doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/08/007)
Systematics of Moduli Stabilisation in Calabi-Yau Flux Compactifications
V Balasubramanian, P Berglund, JP Conlon, F Quevedo
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2005)
2005,
007
(doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/03/007)
MSLED: A minimal supersymmetric large extra dimensions scenario
CP Burgess, J Matias, F Quevedo
– Nuclear Physics B
(2005)
706,
71
(doi: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2004.11.025)
General Axisymmetric Solutions and Self-Tuning in 6D Chiral Gauged Supergravity
CP Burgess, F Quevedo, G Tasinato, I Zavala
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2004)
8,
1661
(doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/11/069)
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Research Group

High Energy Physics

Email

F.Quevedo@damtp.cam.ac.uk

Room

B1.13

Telephone

01223 330852

Personal homepage

http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/fq201/

Study at Cambridge

About the University

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