In Cordoba I attended the Facultad de Matematicas, Astronomia y Fisica of the National University of Cordoba.
In 1989 I went to the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, MA, (USA) on a Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellowship.
My first postdoctoral stint was a 6-month visit to the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University, in 1991, followed by a Senior Research Assistantship at the University of Durham, UK.
In 1994 I moved to Steward
Observatory, The University of Arizona, where I held the Bart J. Bok
Fellowship until my departure in March 1998. On April 1, 1998, I became
an Assistant Professor at the University
of Victoria, where I am now Professor of Physics and Astronomy.
My mother tongue is Castilian
Spanish, as is the case for most Argentineans of European descent. Quechua,
one of the native languages of the indigenous peoples of northern Argentina
is fortunately still alive. I have a great interest in languages, and have
become familiar with Italian, Portuguese, French, and English.
