Speaker
Description
Talent in science is uniformly distributed among regions, nationalities,
gender, race and social origin. However, opportunities are not. An
overview is presented of the challenges we are facing to reach a balance
regarding access to scientific education and for developing a scientific
career for underrepresented sectors of the society, either locally
within a given country or globally from country to country. Some
initiatives to address this lack of justice, equality, diversity and
inclusion will be briefly mentioned.
Fernando Quevedo is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University
of Cambridge, UK. He was the Director of the Abdus Salam International
Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) from 2009 to 2019.
He received his B.Sc. in 1979 in his country, Guatemala and his Ph.D. in
1986 from the University of Texas under the supervision of Nobel
Laureate Steven Weinberg. He has made many contributions to formal,
phenomenological and cosmological aspects of field and string theories.
He has received several awards and honorary degrees, including the 1998
Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2003 Wolfson Merit Award from the Royal
Society, the 2019 Salam Medal from the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)
and the 2021 Wheatley Award from the American Physical Society (APS).
