Education

• Ph.D. in Physics; University of Pittsburgh; 1998.

         Title:   Gravitational Radiation from Black Hole spacetimes.
        Advisor: Jeffrey Winicour, PhD.

• Licenciado en Fisica; FaMAF, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba; 1993.

          Title:  On a Simple Model for Compact Objects in General Relativity.
Advisor: Osvaldo M. Moreschi, PhD.

    Awards and Fellowships

•  Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences Fellow, Canada (2000-).

• Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics Research Fellow. University of Texas at Austin (1999-2000).

 
• APS Nicholas Metropolis Award . For outstanding doctoral thesis work in Computational Physics (1999).

•   CGS/UMI Distinguished Dissertation Award .  For outstanding doctoral thesis work in the area of Mathematical and  Physical Sciences and Engineering (1998).

•   Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship , University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1997-1998.

•    CONICOR (Cordoba Council of Science) fellowship, Cordoba, Argentina 1993-1994. Honor Prize , Award for obtaining the highest average upon completion of the Licenciatura, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, 1993.

    Teaching Experience

•   University of Pittsburgh ; Teaching Assistant, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Pittsburgh PA, USA; from 09/01/1994 until 12/31/1994.

•    FaMAF , National University of Cordoba, Argentina; Teaching Fellow; from 01/04/93 until 08/10/94 (on leave of absence since then).

•    FaMAF , National University of Cordoba, Argentina; Teaching Assistant; from 04/01/91 until 31/03/93.

•   Substitute lecturer at several classes of "General Relativity". The University of Texas as Austin (1999).