21 Notable alumni of
National University of Cuyo
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The National University of Cuyo is 1692nd in the world, 69th in Latin America, and 8th in Argentina by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 21 notable alumni from the National University of Cuyo sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Enrique Dussel
- Enrolled in the National University of Cuyo
- Graduated with licentiate in philosophy
- Occupations
- theologianuniversity teacherchurch historianhistorianphilosopher
- Biography
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Enrique Domingo Dussel Ambrosini was an Argentine-Mexican academic, philosopher, historian and theologian. He served as the interim rector of the Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México from 2013 to 2014.
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Juan Martín Maldacena
- Enrolled in the National University of Cuyo
- In 1991 graduated with licentiate in physics
- Occupations
- university teachertheoretical physicistphysicist
- Biography
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Juan Martín Maldacena is an Argentine theoretical physicist and the Carl P. Feinberg Professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He has made significant contributions to the foundations of string theory and quantum gravity. His most famous discovery is the AdS/CFT correspondence, a realization of the holographic principle in string theory.
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Liliana Bodoc
- Enrolled in the National University of Cuyo
- Graduated with licentiate
- Occupations
- writerchildren's writer
- Biography
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Liliana Bodoc was an Argentine writer of fantasy.
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Nicolás del Caño
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nicolás del Caño is an Argentine politician from the Socialist Workers' Party. He was twice the presidential candidate for the Workers' Left Front (FIT).
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Alfredo Cornejo
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Alfredo Cornejo is an Argentine politician. He is currently Governor of Mendoza Province since 2023, a post he previously held from 2015 to 2019. From 2019 to 2021 he was a National Deputy, and from 2021 to 2023, he was a National Senator for Mendoza. From 2017 to 2021 he was president of its national committee of the Radical Civic Union (UCR).
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José Luis Gioja
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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José Luis Gioja is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician, former governor of San Juan Province and former President of the Argentine Senate.
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Anabel Fernández Sagasti
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Anabel Fernández Sagasti is an Argentine politician, currently serving as a National Senator for Mendoza Province since 2015. She previously served as a National Deputy from 2011 to 2015, elected in Mendoza as well. Fernández Sagasti has been the president of the Mendoza chapter of the Justicialist Party since 2020.
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Andrej Bajuk
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Andrej Bajuk, also known in Spanish as Andrés Bajuk was a Slovene politician and economist. He served briefly as Prime Minister of Slovenia in the year 2000, and was Minister of Finance in the centre-right government of Janez Janša between 2004 and 2008. He was the founder and first president of the Christian Democratic party called New Slovenia.
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Karen Hallberg
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Karen Astrid Hallberg is an Argentine scientist and professor of physics at the Balseiro Institute. and at the Bariloche Atomic Centre. She is the secretary general of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. She was awarded the 2019 International L'Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science Prize for Latin America.
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Lucía Dammert
- Enrolled in the National University of Cuyo
- In 1995 graduated with bachelor's degree in sociology
- Occupations
- university teacherwritersociologist
- Biography
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Lucía Dammert is a Peruvian and Chilean political scientist and politician. From March 2022 to September 2022 she was chief of advisors in the government of Gabriel Boric. During the second government of Michelle Bachelet she worked as chief of advisors for minister Mahmud Aleuy.
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Celso Jaque
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Celso Alejandro Jaque is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician, former Argentine Ambassador to Colombia, former governor of Mendoza Province and a former senator.
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María Perceval
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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María Cristina "Marita" Perceval is an Argentine politician and member of the Justicialist Party. She was the permanent representative of Argentina to the United Nations from September 2012 to February 2016, and was a national senator for Mendoza Province from 2001 to 2009.
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Facundo Suárez
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Facundo Suárez was an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician.
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Conrado F. Varotto
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Conrado Franco Varotto is a physicist who is the former executive and technical director of the Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE), Argentine space agency.
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Adriana Cristina Serquis
- Occupations
- physicistresearcher
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Adriana Cristina Serquis is an Argentine physicist and researcher associated to the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). From 2021 to 2024 she was president of the National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA). In 2014, she received the L'Oréal-UNESCO National Award For Women in Science for her contribution to the rational use of electrical energy.
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Estela V. Welldon
- Occupations
- psychoanalystpsychiatristpsychologistphysician
- Biography
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Estela V. Welldon is an honorary consultant psychiatrist in forensic psychotherapy at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust.
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Aldo R. Boccaccini
- Enrolled in the National University of Cuyo
- Studied in 1983-1987
- Occupations
- university teachernuclear engineermaterials scientist
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Aldo Roberto Boccaccini is a material scientist. He is currently a Professor of Biomaterials and Head of the Institute of Biomaterials at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany. He is also visiting professor at Imperial College London (UK).
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Pamela Verasay
- Enrolled in the National University of Cuyo
- Graduated with certified public accountant
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Pamela Fernanda Verasay is an Argentine politician, currently serving as a National Deputy elected in Mendoza Province since 2021. She previously served as a National Senator for Mendoza from 2015 to 2021 as well. Verasay belongs to the Radical Civic Union (UCR).
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Arturo Lafalla
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Arturo Lafalla is an Argentine politician of the Justicialist Party, in Mendoza Province.
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María Beatriz Nofal
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
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María Beatriz Nofal is an Argentine economist and civil servant from Mendoza. She has been president of Argentina's National Agency for Investment Development, part of the Ministry of Economy, since October 2006. She earlier served, from January 1986 until January 1989, as Under-Secretary of Industrial Development in the office of the Secretary of Industry and Foreign Trade.
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Sebastián Garay
- Years
- 1983-.. (age 43)
- Occupations
- singersongwriter
- Biography
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Sebastian Garay is a singer, musician and composer of Argentine folklore. It is considered one of the outstanding personalities of the new generation of Latin American folklorists. He is currently in production of his third album, titled Animalidad.
