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class="documentDescription">Quevedo elected as Associate Fellow </p> <div class="newsImageContainer"> <a href="https://home.ictp.it/pio/words/news/2010/twas-honours-ictp-director/image/image_view_fullscreen"> <img src="https://home.ictp.it/pio/words/news/2010/twas-honours-ictp-director/image_mini" alt="TWAS honours ICTP Director " title="ICTP Director Fernando Quevedo" height="200" width="132" class="newsImage" /> </a> <p class="discreet">ICTP Director Fernando Quevedo</p> </div> <div class="plain"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <p>ICTP Director Fernando Quevedo has been elected as an Associate Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), during its general meeting in Hyderabad, India. <br /> <br />Quevedo, a Guatemalan national, began his tenure as ICTP Director a year ago, coming to the Centre from Cambridge University, UK, where he is a professor of theoretical physics. He is a well-known theoretical particle physicist with wide-ranging research interests in string theory, phenomenology and cosmology. He has worked at such prestigious research institutes as CERN and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA. <br /> <br />According to the TWAS web site, the main criterion for election as a TWAS Member is scientific excellence. Only those scientists who have attained the highest international standards and have made significant contributions to the advancement of science can be nominated as Fellows or Associate Fellows. <br /> <br />Fellows are scientists who live and work in developing countries and who have made contributions to their fields of science that meet internationally accepted standards of excellence. <br /> <br />Associate Fellows are scientists who live and work in developed countries, have made contributions to their fields of science that meet internationally accepted standards of excellence, and, additionally, have distinguished themselves in efforts to promote science in developing countries.</p> </div> <div class="documentByLine"> 2010-10-20 </div> <div id="relatedItems"> </div> <div class="visualClear"></div> </div> </div> </div> </td> <td id="portal-column-two"> <div class="visualPadding"> <div> <dl class="portlet" id="portlet-news"> <dt class="portletHeader"> <span class="portletTopLeft"></span> <a href="https://home.ictp.it/pio/news" class="tile">News</a> <span class="portletTopRight"></span> </dt> <dd class="portletItem odd"> <a href="https://home.ictp.it/pio/words/news/2010/m-science-book-launched" class="tile" title="ICTP authors detail how mobile technology can enhance research"> <!-- <tal:block replace="structure here/newsitem_icon.gif"/> --> <span class="newsDate">2010-10-27</span><br /> <span class="newsTitle">M-Science Book Launched</span> </a> </dd> <dd class="portletItem even"> <a href="https://home.ictp.it/pio/words/news/2010/twas-honours-ictp-director" class="tile" title="Quevedo elected as Associate Fellow "> <!-- <tal:block replace="structure here/newsitem_icon.gif"/> --> <span class="newsDate">2010-10-21</span><br /> <span class="newsTitle">TWAS honours ICTP Director </span> </a> </dd> <dd class="portletItem odd"> <a href="https://home.ictp.it/pio/words/news/2010/in-memoriam-5" class="tile" title="Mohammad Hossein Sarmadi"> <!-- <tal:block replace="structure here/newsitem_icon.gif"/> --> <span class="newsDate">2010-10-12</span><br /> <span class="newsTitle">In Memoriam</span> </a> </dd> <dd class="portletItem even"> <a href="https://home.ictp.it/pio/words/news/2010/medical-physics-prizes" class="tile" title="Outstanding participants earn top honours"> <!-- <tal:block replace="structure here/newsitem_icon.gif"/> --> <span class="newsDate">2010-10-07</span><br /> <span class="newsTitle">Medical Physics Prizes</span> </a> </dd> <dd class="portletItem odd"> <a href="https://home.ictp.it/pio/words/news/2010/2010-physics-nobel-announced" class="tile" title="Award goes to graphene researchers with ties to ICTP"> <!-- <tal:block replace="structure here/newsitem_icon.gif"/> --> <span class="newsDate">2010-10-05</span><br /> <span class="newsTitle">2010 Physics Nobel Announced </span> </a> </dd> <dd class="portletFooter"> <a href="https://home.ictp.it/pio/news"> More news… </a> <br /> <a href="https://home.ictp.it/pio/words/news/">Search all news</a> <span class="portletBottomLeft"></span> <span class="portletBottomRight"></span> </dd> </dl> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <div class="visualClear"><!-- --></div> <hr class="netscape4" /> <div id="portal-footer"> <span> str. costiera 11 - I-34151 Trieste, Italy - phone: +39 040 2240111 fax: +39 040 224163 -- © 2004 - <a href="http://www.ictp.it">www.ictp.it</a> (since march 1994) </span> </div> <div id="portal-colophon"> <!-- Please keep the Plone Powered button (or a textual link to us) if you use Plone on your site. 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