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Meteorologist and scientific journalist, he has a degree in environment and is a Ph.D. student in Geography. He completed specialisations and postgraduate courses in Climate Change, Smart Cities, Resilient Cities, Sustainable Development, Early Warning Systems and Basin Management in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Panama, Spain, the United States and Italy.
He worked for 20 years in the National Meteorological Service of Argentina and at Canal Trece in Buenos Aires, where he hosted his own meteorology program and was co-host of an agricultural program; he also worked on Canal Rural, on the news channels TN and La Nación +, and currently hosts a weekly on Chacra TV. He also worked in radio and written press, being the author of two books.
He is an international consultant and lecturer on Climate Change, Smart Cities and Risk Management; researcher and postgraduate professor at the University of Salvador (USAL) and at the University of the Center for Macroeconomic Studies of Argentina (UCEMA), as well as at the International Climate Resilience Research Network (RIPERC) - State University of the West of Paraná (UNIOESTE ) in Brazil. Appointed Argentine expert in ISO/TC 292 Security and resilience, he is also a member of the group of experts on Urban Resilience of the Regional Office for the Americas of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR).
He is the director of Hydrometeorology in the Municipality of La Plata and of the Early Warning System for the Government of the City of Buenos Aires.
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