University teaching assistant · Zoology
Faculty of Natural Sciences and Museum, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP)
2010 – present
- About seven years with first-year students (General Zoology) and about fifteen in an advanced course (Zoology III: Vertebrates). The same field taught from scratch and at the level of future colleagues.
- Oral and written exams, plus continuous assessment during the course, so I can change how I teach while it still matters. When a group lacks a base concept (maths, physics, chemistry, physiology), I add it briefly, at their level.
- Led groups of 10 to 15 students on field campaigns in the Iberá Wetlands, teaching sampling methods for birds, reptiles and amphibians.
- Taught Vertebrate Zoology unpaid for twelve years before the position became paid. Designed and taught outreach workshops for children for eight years.
PhD candidate · conservation research
UNLP · Somuncurá Plateau, Patagonia
2017 – present · doctoral fellowship 2018–2024
- Spatial ecology, population dynamics and conservation of a threatened Patagonian frog (Atelognathus reverberii). Run as a multi-year project of my own: research design, logistics for campaigns in remote areas, field problem-solving, analysis and writing.
- Capture–mark–recapture campaigns; frogs of 3.5–4 cm marked with visible implant elastomer, and stomach flushing to study diet.
- Bayesian capture–recapture analysis and regional environmental analysis in Google Earth Engine, built with AI assistants. Four manuscripts in preparation.
Field technician · Antarctic ecosystem monitoring
Instituto Antártico Argentino · CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Programme (CEMP)
September 2018 – March 2019 · pre-campaign and summer campaign
- The full CEMP protocol on Adélie and Gentoo penguins: censuses, nest sampling, arrival and fledging weights, fitting and retrieving GPS loggers and video cameras, blood sampling and stomach flushing for diet, from collection to analysis.
- A protocol written to be comparable across countries and decades. In the Antarctic a sample cannot be retaken and the season does not come back: that is where protocol discipline stopped being an abstraction for me.
Field surveyor (per project)
Latitud Sur — land surveying and topography · La Plata
2023 – 2026
- Topographic control on the widening of the La Plata–Buenos Aires highway (2026): optical levelling, GNSS RTK surveying and staking out, as-built drawings in CAD, and reports.
- Benchmark transfers on a sewer project, and took part in boundary marking and parcel status surveys.
Operations manager
Digital Discos — family record store · La Plata
2022 – 2026 · in charge of the whole business from 2024
- Ran the daily operation: customer service, sales across five channels, purchasing, stock and cash closes, with one employee.
- Sold reconditioned vintage audio with one-to-one advice to customers with no technical background: what they needed, how they would use it, and nothing they didn't need.
- Specified the business's management system and directed its build with AI coding assistants, from the data model to automated marketplace publishing. It is still in production at the business, which I am no longer part of.
Founder
T³ — Three Tech Thinkers · La Plata
2023 – present · part-time
- My own operations and technology consulting project. Work delivered: Latitud Sur and Digital Discos.