Pablo Augusto Ferrari (September 11, 1949) is an Argentine mathematician, member of the

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, the

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, the

Brazilian Academy of Sciences Brazilian commonly refers to: * Brazil, a country * Brazilians, its people * Brazilian Portuguese, its dialect Brazilian may also refer to: * "The Brazilian", a 1986 instrumental music piece by Genesis * Brazilian Café, Baghdad, Iraq (1937) * Bra ...

, and the

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. He is also co-principal investigator at the Brazilian research center NeuroMat. Ferrari investigates probabilistic models of microscopic phenomena and macroscopic counterpart. He is the son of the contemporary conceptual artist León Ferrari.

Biography

Pablo Ferrari was born in 1949 in

Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− glob ...

. He is the son of the contemporary conceptual artist León Ferrari with Alicia Barros Castro and has two sisters: Marialí and Ariel. He got a degree in mathematics from the

University of Buenos Aires The University of Buenos Aires (, UBA) is a public university, public research university in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is the second-oldest university in the country, and the largest university of the country by enrollment. Established in 1821 ...

(UBA) in 1974, PhD in Statistics from the

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(USP) in 1982, with the dissertation ''Invariant measures for the marked simple exclusion process'', advised by Enrique Daniel Andjel. He also has a postdoctoral from

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. Ferrari was Professor at the USP from 1978 to 2008 and was the vice Dean of the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics twice, one from 1994 to 1998 and the other from 1998 to 2002. He was a visiting professor at Rutgers, Paris, Rome, Santiago de Chile and Cambridge. He is a UBA Professor and Researcher of CONICET from 2009 and a member of the Group Probability of Buenos Aires. He received a

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in 1999, the Consecration Award of the Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences in Buenos Aires in 2011 and was named a fellow of the

in 2013. Also, he is a honored member of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

References

Academic staff of the University of São Paulo 1949 births Living people Members of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences Argentine mathematicians {{Argentina-academic-bio-stub Professors of the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of São Paulo