My Story

I'm a Lic. in Physics graduated at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario and a PhD in Geophysics from the Universidad Nacional de San Juan.

During my PhD I researched in applied geophysics, processing and analyzing gravity and magnetic data at the Instituto Geofísico Sismológico Volponi. After that, I made a post-doctoral scholarship with Dr. Victor Sacek from the Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas (IAG-USP), Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil with the support of CONICET. I started to study subduction zones through geodynamical numerical modeling using Mandyoc code.

During my PhD and my postdoc, I had the opportunity to learn and improve my Python programming skills to process, visualize and analyze data.

Being a longtime GNU/Linux user and Free Software supporter, I'm also committed to contribute to open-source software projects to improve science openness and reproducibility. In this sense, I've made contributions to the libraries of the Fatiando a Terra project (open-source tools for geophysics) and lately to Mandyoc (a mantle dynamics simulator). I have recently become maintainer of one of the core lessons of The Carpentries. Moreover, I've started developing tapIOca, a set of Python tools to load, visualize and analyze the outputs of Mandyoc.

Besides my research, I love teaching and sharing my knowledge. I'm an assistant professor in Physics courses at the Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina and I've taught a few different Python and git tutorials. I also have the pleasure to be part of the CoCo program, which is an NSF-funded bilingual project addressed to Latines and Hispanic students to give them skills in programming and science communication. With the intention of improving my teaching skills I became a certified Carpentries instructor.

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