Education
Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1984)
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1982)
Ingeniero Electromecánico or. Mecánica
Facultad de Ingeniería de la Universidad de Buenos Aires (1974)
Present positions
· Partner of SIM&TEC – Simulation and Technology (www.simytec.com) (2007 - …)
· Full Professor of Computational Mechanics (Part-time), Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Engineering School, Universidad de Buenos Aires (1997 - ...)
· Member of the Board of Directors of Argentina´s National Agency for Science and Technology
(2009 - …)
Background
· General director of the Tenaris-Siderca research center (1995-2007)
· Visiting Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University (January -
March 2010)
· Researcher in the Tenaris-Siderca research center (1985-1995)
· Researcher in ADINA R&D (MA, USA) (1984-1985)
· Research assistant at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT (1981-1984)
· Visiting Professor at other Argentine and overseas universities.
Awards
· Edward Laroque Tinker Visiting Professor – Stanford University – Winter Term 2009-2010.
· Emerald Literari Network, Highly Commended Award 2008 for the paper:
- R.G. Toscano and E.N. Dvorkin, “A shell element for finite strain analyses. Hyperelastic
material models”, Eng. Comput., Vol.24, pp. 514-535, 2007.
· KONEX FOUNDATION award in Science and Technology for the decade 1993 - 2002. Merit
Diploma in the field: Technological Development, 2003.
· Fellow of the International Association for Computational Mechanics. (1998)
· Fellow of the Argentine Academy of Sciences. (1996 - ...)
· KONEX FOUNDATION award in Science and Technology for the decade 1983 - 1992.
Merit Diploma in the field: Electronic Engineering and Communications Engineering and
Computational Engineering, 1993.
Publications
· One book, 50 publications in international refereed journals, over 70 publications in
international conferences, 2 chapters in books and over 10 publications on science and
technology policies.
· Impact: Herzing lists 2392 citations and SCOPUS lists 879 citations since 1996, excluding self
citations (January 2010)
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