Ronald F. Garcia Ruiz
Ronald F. Garcia Ruiz is an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Using precision measurements of atoms and molecules made up of short-lived radioactive nuclei, his group investigates the properties of atomic nuclei and of the fundamental forces of nature. Garcia Ruiz earned a bachelor’s degree in physics at the National University of Columbia, a master’s degree in physics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and a Ph.D. in nuclear physics at KU Leuven, Belgium. Prior to joining MIT, he was a research associate at the University of Manchester, UK, and a research fellow at CERN.
The Kind Cruelty. León Ferrari, 100 Years , exhibition now on view at Museo Reina Sofía
Installation view.
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.- The project The Kind Cruelty. León Ferrari, 100 Years stems from an agreement reached between Fundación Augusto y León Ferrari Arte y Acervo (FALFAA, Buenos Aires) and Museo Reina Sofía. It aims to shine a light on the work of León Ferrari (Buenos Aires, 19202013) in Europe, preserving his heritage trough three institutions by dint of a far-reaching and pedagogical vision fostering the contextualization and dissemination of his legacy.
The project is a long-term collaboration between three museums: the Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven and the Musée National d Art Moderne Centre Pompidou in Paris. The Ferrari family proposed to each of these institutions the donation of a complementary heritage set that covers the diversity of techniques, themes and materials that Ferrari used in his long artistic career and that will be made kno
Paleobiologist Juan Carrillo has moved around the globe during his short research career, but his work has stayed solidly anchored in South America. A native of Colombia, Carrillo completed his undergraduate degree at National University of Colombia in Bogota. He moved to Panama for a research internship at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Later, he went to the University of Zurich in Switzerland for a doctorate in paleontology. Carrillo studied fossils and extant organisms, particularly mammals, with the goal of understanding the changes in faunal diversity through time and space in the American tropics. From Zurich, Carrillo moved once more, this time for a postdoctoral fellowship at University of Gothenburg in Sweden, where he began solving a long-standing mystery: Why was the Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI) asymmetrical? GABI started when the Isthmus of Panama connected North and South America during the Neogene period, allowing animals to migrate between the
Guaviare, a department of south-central Colombia, includes the north-western reaches of the Amazon rainforest. One of the most biodiverse regions in the world, this is also a contested landscape: the focus of competing interests, ranging from those of indigenous communities to those of wildlife conservationists. From the mid 1960s until recently, it was also a territory dominated by the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), a Marxist group that operated as a guerrilla organisation until a peace accord with the Colombian government was ratified in 2016.
During the 1990s, while the FARC dominated the region, Colombian researchers, led by Carlos Castaño-Uribe and others, were nonetheless able to identify tens of thousands of remarkable rock art paintings and engravings in what is now Colombia’s largest national park, Chiribiquete; it was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2018. The ceasefire between the government and the FARC in 2016 allowed for more intensive inv