Rodrigo Castro

Dr. Castro received his Electronics Engineer (MASc-EE) (2004) and PhD (2010) degrees from the National University of Rosario (UNR), Argentina. Since 2007 he is a Lecturer at the Computer Science Department, School of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina. In 2011, he was appointed an Assistant Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina. Since 2008 he visits regularly the Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and during 2012-2013 he was a postdoc associate researcher at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He received an Emerging Leaders in the Americas award in 2008 from the Government of Canada, and in 2013 he was awarded the Best Ph.D. DEVS Dissertation Award from the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, SCS.

Pabellón 1 - Ciudad Universitaria
Intendente Güiraldes 2160
Buenos Aires
C1428EGA
Argentina

Email: rcastro@dc.uba.ar
Web: http://www-2.dc.uba.ar/materias/sim/rodrigocastro.html

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Pablo Jacovkis

Dr. Jacovkis specializes in interdisciplinary computational mathematical models. As a private consultant since 1970 he prepared models on fluvial hydraulics, hydrodynamics, hydrology, water resources, meteorology and geology. He has published many scientific and technical papers and supervised several Ph.D. and M.S. students in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Physics and Chemistry. At the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) he was Director of the Department of Mathematics at the School of Engineering and Director of the Institute of Applied Mathematics, Academic Secretary and Dean of the School of Sciences. He was President of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Research. Currently he is Vicepresident for Research and Development of the National University of Tres de Febrero and Professor Emeritus at UBA.

Valentín Gómez 4752
Caseros (B1678ABH)
Provincia de Buenos Aires
+54-011-4575"5012/14/15
Argentina

Email: pjacovkis@untref.edu.ar
Web: http://www-2.dc.uba.ar/profesores/jacovkis/ and http://untref.edu.ar/academico/investigacion-y-desarrollo/laboratorios-y-centros-de-investigacion/