Anamaría Font

Anamaría Font is a Venezuelan theoretical physicist born in Anaco, Venezuela.

Anamaria Font
Font lecturing in the Guillermo Ruggeri Seminars Room at School of Physics in the Central University of Venezuela on 12 April 2016
Born (1959-09-29) 29 September 1959
Anaco, Venezuela
NationalityVenezuelan
Alma materSimon Bolivar University), University of Texas at Austin, Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Known forString Theory
AwardsICTP Prize
Lorenzo Mendoza Fleury Science Prize
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical Physics
Institutions Universidad Central de Venezuela
Doctoral advisorAustin Gleeson

Academic career

Font received a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 1987, under the supervision of Austin Gleeson. Since 1989, she has been a professor at the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas, Venezuela.[1]

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).[2]

"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."[3][4]

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.[5]

In 2013, Font was elected a member of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) for the advancement of science in developing countries.[6]

Other achievements

Font has been actively involved in projects about education in physics and mathematics in Venezuela and other countries.[7][8][9][10] In July 2018, Physics Today magazine published an interview with Font about the status of science in Venezuela.[11]

She is a member of the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD).[12]

References
  1. "Anamaria Font". fisica.ciens.ucv.ve.
  2. ICTP Prize Winners 1998.
  3. Anamaria Font; Luis E. Ibanez; Dieter Lust; Fernando Quevedo (1990), "Strong - weak coupling duality and nonperturbative effects in string theory", Physics Letters B, 249 (1): 35–43, doi:10.1016/0370-2693(90)90523-9
  4. Philip Candelas; Xenia De La Ossa; Anamaria Font; Sheldon H. Katz; David R. Morrison (1994), "Mirror symmetry for two parameter models. 1.", Nuclear Physics B, 416 (1): 481–538, arXiv:hep-th/9308083, doi:10.1016/0550-3213(94)90322-0, S2CID 18490701
  5. "Fundación Empresas Polar". www.fundacionempresaspolar.org.
  6. "TWAS". TWAS.
  7. "Organizing committee". fisica.cab.cnea.gov.ar.
  8. "6th ICTP Latin-American String School (Mexico City)". www.ictp-saifr.org.
  9. "4th Joint Dutch-Brazil School on Theoretical Physics". www.ictp-saifr.org.
  10. "2003 Colombia". archive.schools.cimpa.info.
  11. 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.
  12. "Welcome to OWSD | OWSD". owsd.net.
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