Fernando Quevedo

Fernando Quevedo Rodríguez (born 12 May 1956 in San José, Costa Rica) is a Guatemalan physicist and obtained his early education in Guatemala. He was the director of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) between October 2009 and November 2019. With Anamaría Font, Luis E. Ibáñez, and Dieter Lüst, he proposed a weak-strong duality conjecture which introduced the concept of S-duality in 1990.

Education He obtained his BSc in physics from the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala in 1979, and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1986 under the supervision of Nobel laurate Steven Weinberg. He has taught courses on the Standard Model, differential equations, complex methods, supersymmetry and extra dimensions. He has discussed the importance of international research institutions for science diplomacy. He has authored more than 100 papers.

Honors and awards He has been awarded the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, Doctorate Honoris Causa from Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala and Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, John Solomon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and, alongside Anamaría Font, won the 1998 ICTP Prize. He has been a fellow of the World Academy of Sciences since 2010.

1998: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship 1998: ICTP Prize in High Energy Physics, Trieste, Italy 2000: Doctorate Honoris Causa, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala 2003: Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award, Royal Society, UK 2006: Doctorate Honoris Causa, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala 2010: Distinguished Guatemalan award, Guatemala City Mayor 2010: Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences 2013: Doctorate Honoris Causa, Universidad de Chiapas, Mexico 2017: Salvador Allende Award, Chile Embassy in Italy 2018: Abdus Salam Medal, The World Academy of Sciences 2019: Spirit of Abdus Salam Award 2020–2026: Distinguished Visiting Research Chair, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada 2021: John Wheatley Prize, American Physical Society