About Me

I was born in Jujuy, Argentina, just sixty miles south of the Tropic of Capricorn and so close to the sky. No wonder then that I got my BS in Aeronautical Engineering (whatever that is...) at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. Later I got my MS and PhD at the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison in a less pretentious field: Metallurgical Engineering.

I have very few hobbies. In fact, I believe I have just one that prevails: music, from Latin American folk to blues and classical. In addition I enjoy Latin American and Spanish poetry, political essays, history, novels: from Eduardo Galeano to Jorge Luis Borges, from Armando Tejada Gómez to Manuel Scorza, from Federico García Lorca to Mario Benedetti, from Noam Chomsky to mi hermano el Che and el Subcomandante Marcos.

I refuse to include my CV on line because I am not that haughty. So if you happen to need it (I don't see why though), just drop me a line...

Last but not least, if I have to choose what I can be proud of, this is my choice: my students wherever in the world they are now.