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The Argentinean-born scientist has set himself ambitious goals in the spirit of the academy's mission to promote science and encourage interdisciplinary exchange: "Saxony offers a large number of small and medium-sized companies with an enormous potential for innovation. I would like to support them with new developments and findings from the basic science. The Academy will enable me to come into contact with outstanding scientists in the region, exchange ideas and realize new projects and cooperations. I am looking forward to the future!" At the same time, membership in the Central German Scholarly Society, founded in 1846 as the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences and now steeped in tradition, is a very special distinction for him: "I have been living in Saxony for twelve years now. This award is not only a recognition of my scientific work. It is a special honor for me as a foreign scientist to receive this endorsement from my colleagues".