How I ended up here?
High School: I liked video games, and I thought it was more interesting to program them than to play them. So my parents bought me a very thick "Visual Basic" book when I was 12. I soon realized that it would be extremely hard to program a whole program on my own, but my interest in programming had awakened. I also had access to a "Fortan" book and started programming (very simple things) in that language. In high school, I really liked Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and related stuff, so I applied to every "olympiad" I could, which allowed me to travel a lot.
Undergrad: I started my "Licenciatura" ( a five-year program) in Physics at the FCEyN (the faculty of exact and natural sciences), Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata in March 2004. I made my final dissertation at the Engineering faculty, under the advice of Celso Aldao. I got my diploma in December 2008, and due to my high scores, I got a “Gobierno de la Provincia de Buenos Aires” prize.
Ph.D.: I got a Ph.D. fellowship from CONICET, to run my Ph.D. in Physics at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, from March 2009 to March 2013. I studied (numerically and analytically) pattern formation in nonlinear optical media. My advisor was Miguel Hoyuelos. Simultaneously, I got a teaching position in advanced physics (I worked mostly on Electromagnetism).
Post-Doc: I moved to La Plata, to have a Post-Doc on supercooled liquids, having Tomás Grigera as my advisor, from March 2013 to March 2015. I worked at INIFTA, and I had a Bunge & Born Post-doc fellowship. I also gave classes at the Engineering faculty.
Back to Mar del Plata: I got a CONICET researcher position in 2015, I went back to Mar del Plata and continued my research on liquids, colloids, and related stuff, with the collaboration from Jose Luis Iguain in Mar del Plata and Tomás at La Plata. In 2016, I got my first grant as a PI. It was a junior researcher grant from ANPCyT. Due to the ongoing economic crisis (a.k.a Macrisis), I received roughly 1/3 of the money, 2 years later than expected. Things were getting hard for most scientists in Argentina.
Time to move: In February 2019, I attended the School on Complex Systems at ICPT, Trieste, Italy. There, the physics of biological systems, and related fields, caught my attention, and I felt I should move in that direction. Meanwhile, Miguel put me in contact with Dante Chialvo (a very acknowledged researcher, and probably, the main promoter of the critical brain hypothesis), who was creating a new team for studying the brain using physics tools.
The Lab at UNSAM: In mid-2019, I moved to San Martin. With support and advice from Dante, in very few years (despite the pandemics and the lockdown), several achievements were made: scientific publications I'm proud of, collaboration with Labs from the US and relevant scientists from Argentina, a group is now consolidated, and many others. Among them, I should highlight two: first, in 2020 I was promoted from Assistant to Associate researcher in CONICET , and my first Ph.D. Student, Eyisto Aguilar, defended his Ph.D. thesis at the end of 2023.