Menu
Competition: Latin America & Caribbean
Francisco Urbano
My research career grew out of an education in fields ranging from biochemistry/molecular biology to experimental neurophysiology. My varied experience across fields and across different experimental techniques (cell culture, electrophysiology, neuromuscular junction, brain slices, and imaging) has been always motivated by my interests in how the brain as a whole can process and store information
Susana Villalba
Susana Ada Villalba es poeta, dramaturga, periodista, y gestora cultural. Cada uno de sus seis libros de poesía publicados desarrolla una temática (de género, filosófica, o social): Oficiante de sombras (1982), Clínica de muñecas (1986), Susy, secretos del corazón (1989), Matar un animal (Venezuela, 1995; Argentina, 1997), Caminatas (1999), y Plegarias (U.S.A., 2002; Argentina, 2004).
Marcelo Yanovsky
Dr. Yanovsky gained his PhD in Biological Sciences in 1999 from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, before completing his postdoctoral studies at The Scripps Research Institute, U.S.A., in 2003. He is currently PI at Fundación Instituto Leloir-IIBBA (CONICET), and Associate Professor at the University of Buenos Aires. Dr. Yanovsky has received the Howard Hughes
Alejandro Rosas
Alejandro Rosas was born in Medellín, Colombia, but spent his childhood and early adult years in Montevideo, Uruguay, and in Lima, Perú. After undergraduate studies in philosophy in Lima (1979-1984), he completed doctoral studies in Germany with a Konrad Adenauer Fellowship (1985-1990), and was awarded his Ph.D., summa cum laude, for his dissertation on Kant’s
Catalina Romero
Catalina Romero is Professor of Social Sciences at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). Born in Lima, Peru, she received her B.A. and Professional Title in Sociology at the same university in 1970, her M.S at Iowa State University in 1972, and a Ph.D. in Sociology at the New School for Social Research in
Andrés Rivera
Andrés Rivera was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1966, and received the Geographer professional title from the University of Chile in 1989, when he was awarded the best student of his generation. He has been working in glaciology since 1988, when he did the first glacier inventory between 36-41° S latitude in Chile. Since then
Pedro Querejazu
Nací en Sucre, Bolivia, en 1949. Fui educado por mis padres y los jesuitas dentro de la consciencia de la responsabilidad social y el servicio a la comunidad. Estos valores, por opción personal, han guiado mis actos. Mis padres pensaron que tenía dotes para el arte. Por eso, desde muy joven, me matricularon en la
José Quiroga
José Quiroga was born in Havana, Cuba, and grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He received a B.A. in English and Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures from Boston University, and a Ph.D. from Yale University in Spanish American Literature. Before joining the Emory University faculty in 2002, he taught at The George Washington University
Pedro Ángel Palou
Pedro Ángel Palou (born in Puebla, Mexico, 1966) is a prolific novelist and essayist. He has worked in the public service as Minister of Culture and in Higher Education, for fifteen years as Professor of Literature and President of Universidad de las Américas in Puebla (UDLA) and also as a Visiting Professor in Paris (Sorbonne
Gustavo Paratcha
Gustavo Paratcha received his M.Sc. in Biology (1992) and his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences (1997) from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina. During his Ph.D. studies, his research focused on striatal synaptic changes underlying circling motor behavior. In 1997, he became a postdoc in Jorge Medina’s laboratory at the Institute of Cellular Biology and
Natalia Majluf
Natalia Majluf is Director of the Museo de Arte de Lima, where she previously served as Head Curator (1995-2001). As an art historian, she has produced exhibitions, lectured, and published widely on the art of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America. Her research has focused on issues of race and nation in the visual arts after
Sebastián Lelio
Graduated from the Chilean School of Cinema, Sebastián Lelio has directed several short films—Four, Chamber Music, 12 minutes, Vital burden, City of wonders, the kulechov effect—and has worked sporadically in documentaries (Mi mundo privado, Cero). In 2006, he premiered La Sagrada Familia (The Sacred Family), his first feature film, at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
Esteban Jobbágy
Trained in agronomy (University of Buenos Aires, 1993) and ecology (Duke University, 2002), Dr. Jobbágy is now a Principal Investigator in “Grupo de Estudios Ambientales," a team of ecologists, agronomists, and physicists that belongs to CONICET and Universidad Nacional de San Luis. Esteban Jobbágy received the Bernardo Houssay Young Investigator award in Biology/Agronomy from the
Claudia Joskowicz
Claudia Joskowicz was born in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, and lives and works in New York and Bolivia. She received her M.F.A. in Studio Arts from New York University in 2000. Joskowicz’s video work focuses on the lapses in narrative that are formed when texts or events are taken out of their original
Eduardo Halfon
Eduardo Halfon was born in 1971 in Guatemala City. He moved to the United States with his family in 1981, went to school in South Florida, and then studied Industrial Engineering at North Carolina State University. Later, back in his native Guatemala, he was Literature Professor during eight years at Universidad Francisco Marroquín. Although bilingual,
Mario Hamuy
Mario Hamuy is a Chilean astronomer and Full Professor at the Astronomy Department of Universidad de Chile. He is well known for his research on all classes of supernovae, especially in the use of Type Ia and Type II supernovae as distance indicators and the measurement of fundamental cosmological parameters. Hamuy obtained his Ph.D. in
Raquel Gil-Montero
I studied history at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. Since 2002 I have been full time researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, at the Instituto Superior de Estudios Sociales at the National University of Tucumán. My specialties are Indigenous population, social history of the Andes, herders and miners. Since 2009