Anamaría Font
Anamaría Font | |
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Font lecturing in 2016 | |
| Born | Anamaria Font Villarroel 29 September 1959 |
| Alma mater | Simon Bolivar University University of Texas at Austin |
| Known for | S-duality |
| Awards | Lorenzo Mendoza Fleury Science Prize (1991) ICTP Prize (1998) L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards (2023) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics String theory |
| Institutions | Universidad Central de Venezuela |
| Thesis | Four-Dimensional Supergravity Theories Arising from Superstrings (1987) |
| Doctoral advisor | Austin M. Gleeson |
Anamaría Font Villarroel is a Venezuelan theoretical physicist and professor of the Central University of Venezuela (UCV). Her research has been focused on models about the primordial components of matter in the context of string theory.
Font has contributed to development of Calabi–Yau dimensional compactification and she and her collaborators introduced the concept of S-duality to superstring theory, contributing to the second superstring revolution.