In 1989, when he was a high school student, he won the Silver Medal in the International Physics Olympiad, which took place that year in Warsaw, Poland.
[1] He has held visiting appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey;[3] the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara; and, as a staff associate, at the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy.
[4] Pando Zayas specializes in string theory with a focus on quantum gravity.
He has published many articles on the gauge/gravity correspondence and has applied these techniques to the study of the dynamics of superconductors and strongly interacting fluids.
[5] Pando Zayas translated a two-volume textbook on applications and methods in modern geometry, by B.A.