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Venezuelan theoretical physicist

Anamaría Font is a Venezuelan theoretical physicist, with most of her work focusing on string theory.

Early life and education[edit]

She was born in Anaco, Venezuela. She obtained her Bachelor degree in physics, Cum Laude in 1980 from Simon Bolivar University, in Caracas, Venezuela.[1] Her research has been focused on models about the primordial components of matter in the context of string theory.

Academic career[edit]

Font received a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 1987, under the supervision of Austin Gleeson. Her PhD thesis was Four-Dimensional Supergravity Theories Arising from Superstrings.[2] While pursuing her PhD, she received classes from Nobel Prize physicist Steven Weinberg.[1] After completing her PhD she moved to France to work as a postdoctoral fellow in the Annecy-le-Vieux Particle Physics Laboratory (LAPP).[1] Since 1989, she has been a physics professor at the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas, Venezuela.[3][failed verification] She was also a visiting professor at the Arnold Sommerfeld Center[4] for theoretical physics in Munich, Germany.[5]

In 1998, she was awarded, jointly with Fernando Quevedo, the ICTP Prize in the field of High Energy Physics(in honour of Chen Ning Yang).[3][6]

“for their contribution to the phenomenological studies in superstring theory based on orbifold compactifications and many works on Calabi–Yau compactifications, mirror symmetry and duality symmetries. These works have contributed to a greater understanding of the low energy string physics, as well as various stringy symmetries. In particular, the important concept of S-duality has been introduced by them and their collaborators.”[7][8][clarification needed]

Her article titled Strong-weak coupling duality and non-perturbative effects in string theory[9] had a big influence in the second revolution of string theory in 1995. It was in this article where the term S-duality was used.[10][1]

In 1991, Font was awarded the Lorenzo Mendoza Fleury Science Prize. Given by the country’s national private industry, the prize recognizes the work of Venezuelan scientists, and is the most important scientific prize in Venezuela.[11][12][failed verification]

In 2013, Font was elected a fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) for the advancement of science in developing countries.[13]

Other achievements[edit]

Font has been actively involved in projects related to education in physics and mathematics in Venezuela and other countries.[14][15][16][17] In July 2018, Physics Today magazine published an interview with Font about the status of science in Venezuela.[18] The publication data base INSPIRE-HEP included three of her notorious publications into their data base.[19]

She is a member of the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD).[20]

Selected publications[edit]

Font has more than 50 publications with over 6000 citations. Below is a list of some of her publications.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d “López, L., & Ranaudo, M. A. (2016). Mujeres en Ciencia: Venezuela” (PDF).
  2. ^ Font Villarroel, A (1987). Four-dimensional supergravity theories arising from superstrings (Thesis). Bibcode:1987PhDT……..43F. OCLC 4434458540. OSTI 5741159.
  3. ^ a b “Anamaria Font”. fisica.ciens.ucv.ve.
  4. ^ “Arnold Sommerfeld Center – LMU Munich”. www.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de.
  5. ^ “Faculty of Physics LMU ASC”. Retrieved 14 March 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ International Center for Theoretical Physics. “ICTP Prize winners 1998”. ICTP. Archived from the original on 4 July 2018. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
  7. ^ Font, A.; Ibáñez, L.E.; Lüst, D.; Quevedo, F. (October 1990). “Strong-weak coupling duality and non-perturbative effects in string theory”. Physics Letters B. 249 (1): 35–43. Bibcode:1990PhLB..249…35F. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(90)90523-9.
  8. ^ Candelas, Philip; de la Ossa, Xenia; Font, Anamaría; Katz, Sheldon; Morrison, David R. (March 1994). “Mirror symmetry for two-parameter models (I)”. Nuclear Physics B. 416 (2): 481–538. arXiv:hep-th/9308083. Bibcode:1994NuPhB.416..481C. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(94)90322-0. S2CID 18490701.
  9. ^ Font, A.; Ibáñez, L.E.; Lüst, D.; Quevedo, F. (October 1990). “Strong-weak coupling duality and non-perturbative effects in string theory”. Physics Letters B. 249 (1): 35–43. Bibcode:1990PhLB..249…35F. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(90)90523-9.
  10. ^ “A Brief History of String Theory”. An Introduction to String Theory and D-Brane Dynamics. 2004. pp. 1–8. doi:10.1142/9781848162150_0001. ISBN 978-1-86094-427-7.
  11. ^ “Fundación Empresas Polar”. www.fundacionempresaspolar.org.
  12. ^ “Premio Fundacion Empresas Polar “Lorenzo Mendoza Feury”“. 14 March 2021. Archived from the original on 1 February 2019.
  13. ^ “Font, Anamaría”. TWAS.
  14. ^ “Organizing committee”. fisica.cab.cnea.gov.ar.
  15. ^ “6th ICTP Latin-American String School (Mexico City)”. www.ictp-saifr.org.
  16. ^ “4th Joint Dutch-Brazil School on Theoretical Physics”. www.ictp-saifr.org.
  17. ^ “2003 Colombia”. archive.schools.cimpa.info.
  18. ^ Aut, Feder Toni author (10 July 2018). “Q&A: Anamaría Font on the deterioration of science in Venezuela”. Physics Today. doi:10.1063/PT.6.4.20180710a. S2CID 240367242.
  19. ^ “INSPIRE HEP”. Archived from the original on 19 April 2021.
  20. ^ “Font, Anamaria”. owsd.net. 15 June 2015.