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
Nadrian C. Seeman was born in Chicago in 1945. Following a B.S. in biochemistry from the University of Chicago, he received his Ph.D. in biological crystallography from the University of Pittsburgh in 1970. His postdoctoral training, at Columbia and MIT, emphasized nucleic acid crystallography. He obtained his first independent position at SUNY/Albany, where his frustrations
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
The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World (Henry Holt, 2011), the writing of which was supported by his Guggenheim Fellowship, is just the latest in an impressive line of books on marine conservation that have earned Carl Safina a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant, a Pew Scholar’s Award in Conservation, the
Rui Curi has established himself as a top researcher in biomedical sciences, with over three hundred articles to his credit, as well Fellowships at the National Institutes of Health, the Faculté de Mèdicine de Bruxelas, and the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at Oxford University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of São Paulo
Brazilian-born Márcio Catelan is among the most talented astrophysicists in Latin America. First drawn to astronomy as a boy by Carl Sagen’s Cosmos television series, he excelled in math and physics and quickly stood out among other undergraduates at the University of São Paulo, winning a scholarship to carry out research in the university’s Mathematical Physics Department of
Physicist Gustavo Burdman was born in Buenos Aires and received a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Buenos Aires in 1987. Since opportunities to work in his preferred field of theoretical particle physics were scarce in Argentina, Mr. Burdman then came to the United States to continue his studies. After earning his Ph.D.
Dr. Mirta Aranguren got her B.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering at the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (Argentina) in 1980. She was awarded a CONICET fellowship and worked with Professors Roberto J.J. Williams and Julio Borrajo on thermoset polymers in the Polymer Division of the Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencia y Tecnología de Materiales
Born in 1963 in Buenos Aires, Fernando Pitossi received a degree in biochemistry from the University of Buenos Aires in 1988. As a student of physiology under the supervision of Dr. Fernandez Willamil, he developed a passion for studying complex systems. One week after graduating, he travelled to Switzerland to study molecular biology at the
Ana Parma is an expert in fisheries modeling, assessment, and management. Her main research interest is in the development of stock assessment methods and harvesting strategies that address assessment uncertainties. Originally trained as a biologist at the Universidad Nacional La Plata, Argentina, where she obtained her undergraduate degree, she became involved in fisheries when she
Roberto Carlos Salvarezza is a Principal Researcher of the National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET). He has been deeply involved in the development of nanoscience and nanotechnology in Argentina and Latin America. His research area comprises molecular self-assembly, biomimetic systems, and nano/microfabrication methods. After receiving his doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Buenos Aires
Adjunct Professor at the Physics Department of Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales since 2002, Daniel de Florian received his Ph.D. from the University of La Plata in 1995 and held postdoctoral positions at CERN and ETH-Zurich. He is also a researcher of CONICET. Daniel de Florian’s main scientific interest is the phenomenology of high-energy physics,
Robert B. Zurier, M.D., has been Professor of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester since 1991, and was Chief of Rheumatology there until 2007. From 1980 to 1991 he was Professor of Medicine and Chief of Rheumatology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia. Dr. Zurier graduated from
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