Dr Nicolas Pereyra graduated with an undergraduate degree in Physics from the Universidad Central De Venezuela in 1991. He then studied at University of Maryland at College Park, where he obtained his MS in 1995 and his PhD in 1997. He is currently an Associate Professor in Astrophysics at the Physics and Astronomy Department of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Dr Pereyra's research work has been largely in the development of computational models of physical systems.