Senior scientist and professor at the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) in Brazil, Abe Chian earned a B.Sc. (with distinction) in electrical engineering and space science from Cornell University (1973) and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics and theoretical physics from the University of Cambridge (1977). His doctoral dissertation, Relativistic Nonlinear Waves in Plasmas, was
Alejandro Schinder received his M.Sc. in Biology from the University of Buenos Aires (1990), and his Ph.D. from the Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego (1996), where he studied the role of mitochondria in excitotoxic neuronal death. In 1997 he became a postdoc in Mu-ming Poo’s lab at UCSD, where he investigated the
Dr. João Ricardo Mendes de Oliveira, M.D., Ph.D., was born in 1974, Recife, Brazil. Since 1992, when he was an undergraduate, Dr Oliveira is studying genetic risk factors for several neuropsychiatric conditions such as Alzheimer´s disease, schizophrenia, muscular dystrophies, and mood disorders. He worked at the UCLA, between 2001 and 2004, as a postdoctoral Fellow
Argentinean Hugo Lujan is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry in the Universidad Católica de Córdoba’s School of Medicine and a Principal Investigator with CONICET. One of the consistent focuses of his research has been parasite differentiation and adaptation. During his graduate work in the lab of Delia H. Bronia in the Department of
Patricia Bozza is a Senior Scientist at the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil. Research in Dr. Bozza’s laboratory focuses on molecular and cellular mechanisms of leukocyte activation and generation of inflammatory mediators in host defense and other forms of inflammation. The main areas of investigation are the biogenesis and functions of lipid droplets in host pathogen-interactions;
Dr. Mario Galigniana was born in the Argentinean Western city of Mendoza, just at the foot of the Andes. At the age of four, while he played among vineyards surrounded by snowed mountains, he also learned how to read and write with the best instructor he could have, his own mother, who was a school
One of the most highly regarded ecologists and evolutionary biologists in the world, Francisco Bozinovic is a Professor at the Center for Advanced Studies in Ecology and Biodiversity at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. A growing interest in environmental biology and natural history, developed during his undergraduate years at the Universidad de Chile (Licentiate
Liliana Arrachea obtained the degree of Ms.C. (Licenciada) in 1990 and the Ph.D. in Physics in 1995 at Universidad de La Plata, Argentina. She did part of her Ph.D. research at Centro Atómico Bariloche, Argentina. In 1996-1998 she was Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin and at the Max-Planck-Institute für Physik komplexer
Educated at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música (1981-89), Carnegie Mellon University (M.F.A., 1991), and the University of British Columbia (D.M.A., 1999), Hebert Vázquez is almost as well known for his contributions to music theory scholarship as for his highly original compositions that play upon but always transcend Mexican cultural themes. His compositions, which range from
Catalina Smulovitz has been a Professor of Political Science at the University Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires since 1993, and chair of that department since 2004; she has also been a CONICET researcher since 1992. After earning her undergraduate degree in sociology at the University of Salvador in 1980, she came to the United
An expert in the physiology of the nervous system and the pathophysiology of its disorders, especially basal ganglia–related disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, Gustavo Murer is not only an instructor-lecturer in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Buenos Aires’ School of Medicine and the head of its Laboratory of Neuronal Circuitry
Irene Rizzini is the founding director of the International Center for Research and Policy on Children (CIESPI). At the time of its establishment in 1994, it was known as the Center for Research on Children and was located at the University of Santa Ursula in Rio de Janeiro, where Ms. Rizzini was a professor, but
An expert in the fields of probability theory and stochastic modeling, Servet Martínez Aguilera is a Professor in the Center of Mathematical Modeling, of which he was the scientific director from 2000 to 2002, and in the Department of Mathematical Engineering at the Universidad de Chile. Since 2003 he has also been the scientific director
Since first joining the National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO) almost twenty years ago, Jorge Larson Guerra has been studying the idea of food plants as a cultural and individual heritage and the legal implications of that, specifically, the concept of applying the legal standards of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in
Fernando Goldbaum is the founder and head of the Laboratory of Structural and Molecular Immunology and a CONICET Principal Researcher at the Fundación Instituto Leloir in Buenos Aires; he is also vice president of that institution. His lab is currently using an interdisciplinary approach to four fields: studying the metabolism of flavins and oxygen sensing
Born in Santa Rosa de Osos, Colombia, in 1947, Darío Jaramillo Agudelo received a B.A. in economics and a law degree in 1970 from the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá; he then held an appointment there as an adjutant professor (1971-77) before joining a private law firm (1977-83), and later working as the manager of a
Pablo Gerchunoff is a Professor and Researcher in the Department of Economics and History at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires; from 1981 to 2000, he was a researcher at its Center for Economic Research. In addition, he has been an Independent Researcher for CONICET since 1985, and since 2000 a Professor of
After receiving his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1997, Leonardo Gasparini returned to Argentina to join the faculty of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata as a Professor of Economics and the founding Director of its Center for Distributional, Labor and Social Studies (CEDLAS). Long concerned with poverty and inequality in Latin America, Mr. Gasparini has been a
Nora Domínguez is an Associate Professor of Literary Theory at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, and a major force in the shaping of Argentine literary and cultural debate. She is well known for her analyses of nineteenth and twentieth century literature and studies of gender and narrative fiction. De donde vienen los niños. Maternidad y escriturea en la
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