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I received my Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1997. I also received my M.S. in 1995 also from the University of Maryland, and received my B.S. degree in Physics from the Universidad Central de Venezuela.
I was a Research Assistant/Associate at NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, from 1993 to 1998 where I worked on modeling line-driven accretion disk winds in Cataclysmic Variables. From 1999 to 2001, I was a Research Associate in Computational Physics at the Universidad de Los Andes - Venezuela where I worked on several research projects varying from computational astrophysics to atmospheric simulations. From 2001 to 2005 I worked as a Research Associate in Computational Astrophysics at the University of Pittsburgh where I developed line-driven disk wind models of quasars (QSOs). From 2005 to 2007 I worked as a Computational Physicist at Prism Computational Sciences, Inc at Madison, WI. At Prism I developed several plasma simulation codes for National Laboratories.
Currently, I'm an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Geology at UTPA. I have many publications in refereed journals as well as many presentation at national and international conferences.
To know more about my professional life, I have included my Curriculum Vitae in pdf format:
Curriculum Vitae with pdf extension
I lives in Edinburg, TX with my wife, Sijham, my son Gabriel, my dog Daisy and my cat Max. We enjoy the wonderful clear nights in the Rio Grande Valley Area. Here the weather is fantastic. We sure love our night observing sessions!
