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
De Sitter string vacua from supersymmetric D-terms
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2003)
7,
1411
Low-energy brane-world effective actions and partial supersymmetry breaking
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2003)
7,
1003
Warped brane worlds in six dimensional supergravity
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2003)
2003,
795
General brane geometries from scalar potentials: gauged supergravities and accelerating universes
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2003)
7,
056
Branonium -: art. no. 037
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2003)
2003,
959
Instabilities and particle production in S-brane geometries
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2003)
2003,
1073
SUSY breaking and moduli stabilization from fluxes in gauged 6Dsupergravity
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2003)
2003,
032
Lectures on string/brane cosmology
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2002)
19,
5721
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/19/22/304)
Cosmological Spacetimes from Negative Tension Brane Backgrounds
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2002)
2002,
539
TeV-scale Z′ bosons from D-branes -: art. no. 016
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2002)
2002,
303
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