Fernando Quevedo
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Fernando de la Trinidad Quevedo Rodriguez is a Guatemalan physicist. He is currently Professor of Theoretical High Energy Physics in DAMTP at the University of Cambridge and teaching fellow at Gonville and Caius College. He obtained his B.Sc. in Physics from the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala in 1979 and his Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Texas at Austin in 1986.
Professor Quevedo has been professor of the Institute of Physics UNAM, research associate at CERN and McGill University. He has been awarded The Wolfson Merit Award, Dotorate Honoris Causa from Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala and Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, John Solomon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and The ICTP Prize in High Energy Physics. He has authored more than 100 papers[1].
He currently teaches a course on Differential Equations to first year undergraduate mathematicians, and a graduate course on Supersymmetry and Extra Dimensions.