I am Researcher (Investigador Adjunto CONICET) at the Sección Paleontologia de Vertebrados of the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia” (MACN), Buenos Aires. Also, I´m an Associated Curator of the Paleovertebrate Collection of that institution.

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I was enchanted by paleontology when I was a young boy, collecting Pleistocene fossils in the locality of Merlo, Buenos Aires Province, where I was born. In early 1995, I started as collaborator in the Sección Paleontologia de Vertebrados of the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales under the advice of the renowned Dr. José F. Bonaparte. There I developed my first field works in Patagonia, west Argentina, and Brazil and my first research works. I was at that institution until 2008. Then, I spent two years in San Rafael, Mendoza, working in the Museo de Historia Natural. After that, I went to Minas Gerais, Brazil, and started my work at the Centro de Pesquisas Paleontológicas L. I. Price until 2014, as researcher and collection manager. In this institution I still keep projects on continental Cretaceous faunas.  Since 2014 I develop my research in the Departamento de Paleontologia e Estratigrafia of the UFRGS, as part of my PhD and Postdoctoral fellowships, working mainly on cynodont evolution, including the origin of mammals, and associated Triassic faunas. In 2018 I got the Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professorship at the University of Bristol (Bristol, UK) to work with non-mammalian cynodonts, a project that still continuous. Also, I devote part of my time to popular divulgation of paleontology. I started to work in the Ischigualasto-Villa Unión Basin with this group since 2013, and several new discoveries will be coming up!.

 

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