Researcher

PhD in Economics (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Lic. en Economía (UBA) is an economist specialized in econometrics, and statistics with applications to social issues. His research work is published in the leading international journals like Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Economic Inequality or Econometric Theory He is Professor at Universidad de San Andrés and chairman of its Department of Economics. He is a full professor of econometrics at Universidad Nacional de La Plata (part time) and guest researcher at Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS). He has visited regularly the Economics Department of the University of Illinios, teaching graduate and undergraduate econometrics. He actively partipates in scientific writing and lecturing. Has been a guest speaker at TEDXRioDeLaPlata and the author of Borges, big data y yo, Big data y Que es (y que no es) la Estadística (Siglo XXI, Colección Ciencia Que Ladra) and writes frequently for the main argentinean newspapers (La Nación and Clarín, among others) on the role of statistics in public life. He has received important awards including Konex, Fulvio Pagani/ARCOR, Bernardo Houssay, and the EGSO as the best core professor at the PhD in economics at the University of Illinois, and has ben selected by the BGH Foundation as one of the 100 argentine innovators. He as served as president of the Argentine Association of Economists (AAEP) and is Principal Researcher at CONICET. and member of of Argentina´s National Academy of Economic Sciences.