Mini bio

After finishing high school in Paraná, I began my university studies, simultaneously pursuing two degrees: Electromechanical Engineering at the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, and Bioengineering at the Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos. But I really wanted to study physics, so in 1990 I moved to the city of Rosario.

I graduated with a Licentiate in Physics from the Universidad Nacional de Rosario in 1995, and then obtained my PhD from the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata in 2002, thanks to a doctoral fellowship from CONICET.

While finishing my PhD, I began working as a researcher in the Agribusiness and Food Program of the Universidad de Buenos Aires (2001 – 2002), developing computational models of agrifood chains. Subsequently, I worked at the Nuclear Regulatory Authority (2003 – 2007) on projects related to the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, the analysis of environmental samples by gamma spectrometry, and the modeling and calibration of high-purity germanium detectors. In 2004, I also developed a simulation model of the honey export business of BOMARE S. A. Although the subjects were very different, the common thread was the same as in my current work: building computational models and using them to simulate and analyze scenarios.

In 2007, I joined CONICET as an Assistant Researcher at the Instituto de Física de Líquidos y Sistemas Biológicos (IFLySiB), which depends on CONICET and the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, where I currently work, but now as an Independent Researcher and head of the Statistical Mechanics of Liquids and Soft Condensed Matter group.

In 2009 and 2010, I held research stays at the Laboratory of Computational Biophysics and Molecular Modeling of the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), first with a fellowship from Brazil’s National Laboratory for Scientific Computing and then with a CONICET external postdoctoral fellowship, studying the interaction of integrins with their ligands through molecular modeling. At the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, I led the Granular Materials Group of the Facultad Regional La Plata (2018 – 2025), and since 2025 I have directed the Centro de Investigación en Mecánica Experimental y Computacional.

As a teacher, I worked between 1993 and 1996 at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario (in the faculties of Engineering, Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, and Biochemistry and Pharmacy), and also at the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata between 1997 and 2001. In 2005, I started as an Assistant Professor at the Facultad Regional Buenos Aires of the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, teaching Physics II, and since 2018 I have been working as a Full Professor at the Facultad Regional La Plata of the same university, teaching undergraduate courses (currently Advanced Calculus) as well as graduate courses.

Funding

  • Estudio de propiedades dinámicas y estructurales de materiales granulares.
    PID MATCLP10087C (UTN), 2024 - 2027.
  • Optimización de consumo de energía en sistema de aireación de silos.
    FITBA A64, 2023 - 2024.
  • Inducción de fibras amiloides por membranas beta-pancreáticas oxidadas en diabetes tipo 2.
    PIP 11220210100884CO (CONICET), 2022 - 2024.
  • Flujo y transporte de material granular en sistemas de interés tecnológico.
    MAUTILP0007746TC (UTN), 2020 - 2023.
  • Estudio de fluidos confinados en sistemas de interés tecnológico.
    PUE 2018 229 20180100010 CO (Proyecto de Investigación de Unidades Ejecutoras - CONICET), 2019 - 2023.
  • Estudio de propiedades dinámicas y estructurales de sistemas granulares.
    IFI4434TC (UTN), 2017 - 2019.
  • Proyecto de adquisición complementaria «Plan de Mejoras del Centro de Cálculo del IFLySiB».
    MinCyT Res. Nro. 054/15, 2015 - 2018.
  • Estudio y análisis de materiales granulares.
    IFI1871 (UTN), 2013 - 2016.
  • Divulgación de actividades científicas a través de CienciaNet.
    Proyecto de divulgación científico - tecnológica (CONICET), 2013.
  • Diseño, implementación y evaluación de situaciones problemáticas abiertas en física básica para ingenieros.
    UTN1535 (UTN), 2012 - 2013.

PhD students and postdocs

  • Santiago Mosca: Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (PhD, ongoing)
  • Lucas Basiuk: Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (PhD, ongoing)
  • César Gracia: Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (PhD, ongoing)
  • Julián Montero: Universidad Nacional de La Plata (PhD, ongoing)
  • Kevin Gabriel Tomás: Universidad Nacional de La Plata (PhD, ongoing)
  • Verónica Beatriz Durán: CONICET (PhD, ongoing)
  • Mariano Esteban Martín Ramírez: CONICET - YTEC S.A. (Postdoc, ongoing)
  • Luciana Luque: CONICET (Postdoc, 2020 - 2023)
  • Yanis Ricardo Espinosa Silva: CONICET (Postdoc, 2016 - 2022)
  • Federico Lotto: CONICET (Postdoc, 2017 - 2020)
  • Federico Vega: CONICET - YTEC S.A. (Postdoc, 2017 - 2020)
  • Hernán Rubén Sánchez: CONICET (Postdoc, 2017 - 2019)
  • Marcos Andrés Madrid: CONICET (Postdoc, 2013 - 2015)
  • Ramiro Miguel Irastorza: CONICET (Postdoc, 2010 - 2012)

Academic service

  • Leadership. Centro de Investigación en Mecánica Experimental y Computacional (CIMEC), UTN FRLP (since 2025); Granular Materials Group, UTN FRLP (2018 – 2025).
  • Editorial work. Associate Editor of Frontiers in Soft Matter (since 2022). Guest Editor of the special issue Soft Matter Research in Latin America of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (2021 – 2022).
  • Boards. Member of the Board of Directors of IFLYSIB (2012 – 2016 and since 2019). La Plata branch representative on the Board of the Argentine Physical Society (2014 – 2022).
  • Event organization (selection). Regional Workshop on Granular Materials (2022, 2023 and 2025). Symposium Dynamics of collective systems under different boundary conditions, Dynamics Days Latin America and the Caribbean (2024). Organizing committee of Powders & Grains 2021. Statistical Mechanics, Nonlinear Physics and Complex Systems Division of the Annual Meeting of the Argentine Physical Society (2019 – 2022). Local organizing committee of the Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute on Frontiers in Particulate Media (2014).

Outreach and community

  • Book. Co-author, with Facundo Batista, of Python para Ciencia y Tecnología (2025), a free book in Spanish.
  • CienciaNet. Co-owner, editor and administrator of the science outreach portal CienciaNet. Its outreach project ranked first in CONICET’s 2012 call for science communication projects.
  • PyDay La Plata. Organizer of the 2022, 2023 and 2024 editions at the Facultad Regional La Plata of UTN.