He holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics - Universidad de Buenos Aires (1971), a Master's degree in Mathematics - Stanford University (1979), and a Ph.D. in Mathematics - Stanford University (1981). Currently, he is a Senior Researcher III at the National Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IMPA) and a Full Professor at the School of Applied Mathematics (EMAp) at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV), focusing mainly on the topic of Optimization.

Areas of interest: 

• Continuous Optimization