Pedro Gil Vieira

Pedro Gil Vieira is a Portuguese Theoretical Physicist who has done significant work in the area of Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Gravity. He was born in 1982, lives in Canada and has a residence in Portugal. A graduate of the Universidade de Porto, Portugal, Dr. Vieira earned his master’s and PHD at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, France. He joined the Perimeter Institute in 2009.

Pedro Vieira is one of 24 Canadian winners of major international research awards in 2015 featured in the publication, Canadian Excellence, Global Recognition, celebrating Canadian winners of major international awards. He has also received the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, 2015 and the Gribov Medal 2015.