In Argentina, he acted as national coordinator of the Natural Resources and Environment Program of the Ministry of Agriculture (2015-2019), coordinating the work of more than 1500 researchers nation-wide. He was Chair Professor of the Farming Systems Ecology Group at Wageningen University until 2015, in The Netherlands, and acts as external Professor at the Ecole Doctorale GAïA of the University of Montpellier, France since 2009 and at the National University of Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires, Argentina since 2004.
He is an agronomist by training and worked both in the private sector and in academic/research organisations. He holds a PhD in Production Ecology and Resource Conservation and his areas of expertise include agroecology, soil fertility, biodiversity and systems analysis. His recent areas of interest include human-nature interactions in multifunctional, nutrition-sensitive landscapes, and their adaptation to global change. He participated in a diversity of research, development and education projects around the world on design, resilience and adaptation of farming systems, with a focus on interacting social-ecological processes.
His career in international research started at the Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility (TSBF) Institute of CIAT in Nairobi, Kenya (2002-2007), and includes a period at the University of Zimbabwe (2011). At CIRAD (Centre de coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement) in Montpellier, France he led an international research team on Systems Design and Evaluation with activities in La Réunion, Brazil, Vietnam, Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Benin, Kenya and Zimbabwe.
He is a member of the International Commission on Sustainable Agriculture Intensification, serves as editor of several international journals, published more than 160 scientific articles (H-index 43, SCOPUS), consults for the FAO, for international NGOs and for the CGIAR, trained a vast number of active young researchers, and supervised PhD students and postdocs with fieldwork in Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa.
