Leopoldo A Pando Zayas

Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas is a physicist and string theorist. He is a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Education and career

Leopoldo Avelino Pando Zayas grew up in Cuba. In 1989, when he was a high school student, he won the Silver Medal in the International Physics Olympiad, which took place in Warsaw, Poland that year.

Pando Zayas received his Master of Science in physics in 1995, and his PhD in 1998, both from Moscow State University in Russia. the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara; and, as a staff associate, at the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy.

Research and publications

Pando Zayas specializes in string theory with a focus on quantum gravity. He has published many articles on the gauge/gravity correspondence and has applied these techniques to the study of the dynamics of superconductors and strongly interacting fluids.

Pando Zayas translated a two-volume textbook on applications and methods in modern geometry, by B.A. Dubrovin, A.T. Fomenko, and S.P. Nóvikov, from Russian into Spanish. This book appeared as Geometría moderna: métodos y aplicationes (Moscow, 2000).